Interest Level
Grades PreK - 3
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: Not Available
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Guided Reading: Not Available
Genre
- Poetry and Rhymes
Theme/Subject
- African and African American
About This Book
Artist E.B. Lewis acts as interpreter and visionary, using watercolor to pay tribute to Langston Hughes's timeless poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers, a poem that every child deserves to know.
2010 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
About the Authors or Illustrators
Langston Hughes wrote more than 60 books, including poems, novels, short stories, plays, and children's poetry books such as The Dream Keepers. He was the first African American to support himself as a writer, and he wrote from his own experience.
E. B. Lewis has won a Coretta Scott King Award as well as a Caldecott Honor. He lives in New Jersey.
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