Lullaby (for a Black Mother)

Lullaby (for a Black Mother)

Lullaby (for a Black Mother)

Lullaby (for a Black Mother)

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Overview

With graceful words as smooth as a song, the poet Langston Hughes celebrates the love between a mother and her baby. This picture book edition is a gift to share.

Award-winning illustrator Sean Qualls’s painted and collaged artwork captures universally powerful maternal moments with tenderness. In the end, readers will find a rare photo of baby Hughes and his mother, a biographical note, further reading, and the complete lullaby. Like little love-ones, this beautiful book is a treasure.

“My little dark baby, / My little earth-thing, / My little love-one, / What shall I sing / For your lullaby?"


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780547362656
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 03/19/2013
Pages: 32
Sales rank: 1,066,260
Product dimensions: 9.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range: 4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Langston Hughes penned many well-known poems, such as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "I, Too, Sing America," and "The Dream Keeper." A renowned contributor to New York City's Harlem Renaissance, he died in 1967.

Sean Qualls received a Coretta Scott King Honor award for his illustrations in Before John Was a Jazz Giant by Carole Boston Weatherford, and has published many other acclaimed books. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his family. Visit his website at www.seanqualls.com.

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"Hughes' classic lullaby gets a loving lift with Quall's graceful artwork."
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"A wonderful celebration of both love and poetry."
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