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There Was a Party for Langston

Author: Reynolds, Jason

Follett Number: 2050PC5
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2023
Format: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-53443-944-3
ISBN-10: 1-53443-944-7
LCCN: 2022-058007
Dewey: -E-
Classifications: Fiction; Easy

Subjects:
African Americans Fiction
Biographical Fiction
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 Fiction
Libraries Fiction
Parties Fiction
Picture Books
Poets Fiction
"A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book"--Copyright page. 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.

From the publisher:
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.

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