Lullaby (for a Black Mother)
By Hughes, Langston
Themes flagged by parents·2
Single Parent
This book primarily contains one parent or a single parent family.
Black
This book contains predominantly Black people and/or Black culture and/or the main character is Black.
Synopsis
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. 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?"
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. 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?"
Details
- Illustrator
- Sean Qualls
- Publisher
- Clarion Books
- ISBN-10
- 054736265X
- ISBN-13
- 9780547362656
- Reading age
- 4 – 7
- Grade level
- Pre-kindergarten – 3
- Pages
- 32
- Published
- 2013
- Added to shelf
- Jan 17, 2024