Title: Lullaby (For a Black Mother)
Description: “My little dark baby, / My little earth-thing, / My little love-one, / What shall I sing / For your lullaby?" With a few simple words as smooth as a song, the poet Langston Hughes celebrates the love between an African American mother and her baby. The award-winning illustrator Sean Qualls’s painted and collaged artwork captures universally powerful maternal moments with tenderness and whimsy. 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.
Subjects: Juvenile poetry, Infants, African Americans, Mother and child, Poetry, American poetry, English Lullabies, Children's poetry, American, Lullabies, Children's poetry
Places: United States