2007 Coretta Scott King Award - Poetry for Young People by Langston Hughes

In this book, Langston Hughes incorporates African-American musical traditions into literature. He uses material from the world around him to write his poetry. He wrote what he saw and experienced. His poetry is written so that the rhyming has actual rhythm. Under the title to each poem you will find the reason for its being. "Aunt Sue's Stories" is one of my favorites in the book. This poem was written in honor of his maternal grandmother's stories. He writes about his the blues, his dreams, the African-American struggles, and places he has seen.

This book addresses diveristy in each and every poem. The poems tell of the hard times had by African-Americans during Hughes' life. (He lived from the 1920's until 1967) He lived through the years of separation and talks about this in his poems, it is seen in the poem "The Merry-Go Round".

Hughes, Langston. (2006). Poetry for Young People. New York: Sterling Publishing Company.

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