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Langston's train ride

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Robert Burleigh's inspiring text captures the magical moment when Langston Hughes came to believe in himself as a writer, as he first wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

Clackety clack clack clack...
Can you hear the rhythm of the train?
Langston Hughes did. Traveling to see his father in 1920, as he listened to the sounds of the train -- metal on metal, wheels on rails -- Hughes's imagination took flight. On that ride, he was inspired to write his first famous poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
This picture book tells the story of Langston Hughes's rise to accomplishing his dream of being a writer. With bold, striking illustrations by Leonard Jenkins, here is a book for any young person with a dream.

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928 BUR

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Call Number

928 BUR

Publisher

New York, USA : Scholastic Inc., 2004

Collation

32 pages : illustration : 27 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0439738733

Classification

928

Content Type

text

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Subject(s)

Poets, American
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
African American poets

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