Full name: Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes

Author: Floyd Cooper Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780698116122 0698116127

Young Langston Hughes was a dreamer. He dreamed about heroes like Booker T. Washington, who was black just like him. When he heard the clackety-clack of train wheels, he dreamed about the places it had been. But most of all, he dreamed about having a happy home. And so, one day, he began turning those dreams into beautiful prose. As he did, he discovered where his home really was?in the words and rhythms of his poetry that reached people all over the world. The beloved Langston Hughes comes to life in a book for poets, dreamers, children and adults ?anyone who has ever thought of what home means to them.?Teachers looking for a good way to introduce youngsters to this prominent poet will find this book to be an excellent accompaniment to his work.? --School Library Journal?Like Hughes? poetry, the power of Cooper?s story is that it confronts sadness even as it transcends it.? --Booklist?His text is as inviting as his illustrations.? --The New York Times Book Review Similar books: Langston's Train Ride by Robert Burleigh Langston Hughes by Alice Walker Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange Talkin' About Bessie by Nikki Grimes Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney Fifty Cents and a Dream by Jabari Asim Frederick Douglass by Walter Dean Myers Portraits of African-American Heroes by Tonya Bolden The Real McCoy by Wendy Towle Bad News for Outlaws by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Only Passing Through by Anne Rockwell On Her Own Ground by A'Lelia Bundles Phillis's Big Test by Catherine Clinton The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris