Lullaby (For a Black Mother)
“My little dark baby, / My little earth-thing, / My little love-one, / What shall I sing / For your lullaby?" With a few simple words as smooth as a song, the poet Langston Hughes celebrates the love between an African American mother and her baby.
The award-winning illustrator Sean Qualls’s painted and collaged artwork captures universally powerful maternal moments with tenderness and whimsy. 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.
- Author
- Langston Hughes, Sean Qualls
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- HMH Books for Young Readers
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780547362656
- Genres
- poetry, childrens, love, cultural, storytime, fiction, classics
- Release date
- 2013
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