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.
Visit the Ashley Bryant Center website to learn more about the artist's life and work.
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.
Visit Ashley Bryant Center website to learn more about the artist's life and work.
Ages 4 to 8
ALA Notable Children's Books CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council) NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing Kansas NEA Reading Circle List Intermediate Title Bank Street Best Books of the Year - with Outstanding Merit NCTE Notable Poetry List
"Readers don't have to have ever heard Bryan's unforgettable, theatrical recitation of "My People" or other Hughes poems to understand the depth of the artist's appreciation of and admiration for Hughes and his poetry: he opens the poems up visually here in the same way that he opens them auditorily when he performs them live. Like Hughes, Bryan, at 91, can also boast, 'I'm still pulling.'" - Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
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