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Visiting Langston

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Gentle cadence to the words, depth in both context and artwork, articulate authenticity of childhood memories given weight of some better understanding through hindsight.
This book is a treasure to share with our children of all ethnicities, to begin dialogues with them which will nourish them and their fellows and their children and so forth through gardens and offices and libraries and schools and temples and homes.

Our unnamed narrator clearly is thrilled about visiting the home of her hero, Langston Hughes. She tells us about him and who he was (in neat rhyming verse), and also about herself and her own poems.

Short, upbeat - suitable for older children learning poetry or about black history, and for younger children as well. Even a very small child should be able to sit through and understand this one.