Overview

"""HOLD FAST TO DREAMS / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly."" The Dream Keeper, the great African-American writer Langston Hughes's only collection of poems for children, includes some of his best loved works. It is being reissued in a handsome hardcover edition in celebration of its 75th anniversary. Filled with elegant scratchboard illustrations by Caldecott Honor winner Brian Pinkey, and featuring an introduction by noted children's poet Lee Bennett Hopkins, this gift edition is sure to be cherished by young readers and longtime poetry lovers alike."

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Author:   Langston Hughes ,  Brian Pinkney
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Random House USA Inc
Edition:   75th ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780679844211

ISBN 10:   067984421
Pages:   83
Publication Date:   13 November 2007
Recommended Age:   2-12
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Children / Juvenile ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print  
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""" There's no better way to show kids what poetry is about than to share this collection."" --""Booklist."" ""There's no better way to show kids what poetry is about than to share this collection.""--Booklist."

There's no better way to show kids what poetry is about than to share this collection. --<i>Booklist.</i>

There's no better way to show kids what poetry is about than to share this collection. --Booklist.

There's no better way to show kids what poetry is about than to share this collection. -- Booklist.

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Langston Hughes, is the most widely recognized African-American poet of the twentieth century. Born in Mississippi in 1902, he spent most of his adult life in Harlem, where he died in 1967.Brian Pinkney has received two Caldecott Honors, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.

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