There was a party for Langston / by Jason Reynolds ; with art by Jerome Pumphrey & Jarrett Pumphrey.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: 54 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- Preschool children
- School children
- 9781534439443
- 1534439447
- There was a party for Langston : King o' Letters
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Juvenile fiction
- Poets -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- African American authors -- Juvenile fiction
- African American poets -- Juvenile fiction
- Parties -- Juvenile fiction
- Libraries -- Juvenile fiction
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Juvenile literature
- African American authors -- Juvenile literature
- African American poets -- Juvenile literature
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile literature
- Book design by Sonia Chaghatzbanian.
- Caldecott Honor, 2024.
- Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, 2024.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Famous People | REYNOLDS JASON | Checked out | 05/28/2024 | 33111011346422 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Caldecott Honor Book
A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds's 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.
"A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book"--Page facing title page.
Cover title: There was a party for Langston : king o' letters.
Ages 4-8. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Grades PreS-3. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Caldecott Honor, 2024.
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, 2024.
A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.
"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." -- Provided by publisher.
Book design by Sonia Chaghatzbanian.