Lullaby (for a Black Mother)
Hardcover – Picture Book, March 19, 2013
HarperCollins · Hardcover · March 19, 2013
With graceful words as smooth as a song, the poet Langston Hughes celebrates the love between a mother and her baby.
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- Who it’s for
- Langston Hughes’s tender words and layered artwork make this a quiet celebration of mother and child.
- Themes
- Mother-and-baby love, Lullaby
- Genres
- Poetry, US: African American Stories, Bedtime & Dreams
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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.
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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?"
A Lullaby to Share
Langston Hughes’s tender words and layered artwork make this a quiet celebration of mother and child.
Come here for
- A lyrical tribute to the bond between mother and baby
- Painted and collaged art by Sean Qualls
Expect
- The complete lullaby, plus a rare photo of Hughes as a baby
- A biographical note and further reading
Where it sits
| Poetry | 54% |
|---|---|
| Bedtime & Dreams | 37% |
| US: African American Stories | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Bedtime & Dreams
- US: African American Stories
- Family Stories
- Multigenerational Families
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- Parent-Child Stories
- Girls & Young Women
- Places to Explore
- Big Feelings
- Authors
- Langston Hughes
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- March 19, 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Mother-and-baby love · Lullaby
- Reading lane
- Bedtime & Dreams