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There Was a Party for Langston

 Author: Jason Reynolds  Category: Activism and Social Justice, Black History, Civil Rights, Elementary School, Historical Fiction, Holidays, Poetry and Lyrical Stories, Preschool, Writing and Literature  Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books  Country: United States  Language: English  Reading Age: Elementary School, Preschool  Illustrator: Jarrett Pumphrey, Jerome Pumphrey More Details  Amazon  Bookshop org
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A Caldecott Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book

New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’ debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired.

Back in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word-making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling and others, his word-children, to write their own glory. Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and more came be-bopping to recite poems at their hero’s feet at that heckuva party at the Schomberg Library, dancing boom da boom, stepping and stomping, all in praise and love for Langston, world-mending word man. Oh, yeah, there was hoopla in Harlem, for its Renaissance man. A party for Langston.

There Was a Party for Langston
Written by Jason Reynolds
Illustrated by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey

Source: Publisher (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)

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