Sail Away - Hardcover
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Langston Hughes, Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)Audience:Ages 4-8Publish date:2015-09-01Pages:40
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781481430852ISBN-10:1481430858UPC:9781481430852Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Poetry, Science & Nature, People & PlacesBook Topic:Earth Sciences, United StatesAward:2015 Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up) Gold Medal Winner - Poetry AwardSize:10.60 x 9.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCZEZ9T6PP
A celebration of mermaids, wildernesses of waves, and the creatures of the deep through poems by Langston Hughes and cut-paper collage illustrations by multiple Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan. The great African American poet Langston Hughes penned poem after poem about the majesty of the sea, and the great African American artist Ashley Bryan, who's spent more than half his life on a small island, is as drawn to the sea as much as he draws the sea. Their talents combine in this windswept collection of illustrated poems--from "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" to "Seascape," from "Sea Calm" to "Sea Charm"--that celebrates all things oceanic.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781481430852ISBN-10:1481430858UPC:9781481430852Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Poetry, Science & Nature, People & PlacesBook Topic:Earth Sciences, United StatesAward:2015 Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up) Gold Medal Winner - Poetry AwardSize:10.60 x 9.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCZEZ9T6PP
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was born in Joplin, Missouri, and lived much of his life in Harlem, New York. As one America's most cherished chroniclers of the black experience, known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes's work was constantly groundbreaking throughout his forty-six-year career. His poetry about the ocean and the symbolism that surrounds it stems from his travels through Africa and Europe working as a seaman. Ashley Bryan (1923-2022) grew up to the sound of his mother singing from morning to night, and he shared the joy of song with children. A beloved illustrator, he was named a Newbery Honoree for his picture book, Freedom Over Me. He also received the Coretta Scott King--Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, was a May Hill Arbuthnot lecturer, a Coretta Scott King Award winner, and the recipient of countless other awards and recognitions. His books include Freedom Over Me; Sail Away; Beautiful Blackbird; Beat the Story-Drum, Pum Pum; Let It Shine; Ashley Bryan's Book of Puppets; and What a Wonderful World. He lived in Islesford, one of the Cranberry Isles off the coast of Maine.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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🏆 2015 Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up) Gold Medal Winner - Poetry Award
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