Lullaby (for a Black Mother)

by Langston Hughes, Sean Qualls (Illustrator)

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
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.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Hughes' classic lullaby gets a loving lift with Quall's graceful artwork."
— Booklist

"A wonderful celebration of both love and poetry."
—School Library Journal

Editorial Reviews

"Hughes' classic lullaby gets a loving lift with Quall's graceful artwork."
—Booklist

"A wonderful celebration of both love and poetry."
—School Library Journal

"A quiet but welcome introduction to the writer's work for the very young."
—Publishers Weekly

"Share with little ones needing a gentle lullaby."
—Kirkus

"Not all poems make for great picture book texts, but this one has just the right cadence and all the right line breaks for smooth page turns, especially when accompanied by Qualls's superb art showing the deep bond between a mother and her baby at bedtime."
—Horn Book —

From the Publisher