New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds\'s debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired.
A Party for Langston..
Oh, yeah, There was hoopla in Harlem, for its Renaissance man.
Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and more came be-bopping to recite poems at their hero\'s feet at that heckuva Party at the Schomberg Library, dancing boom da boom, stepping and stomping, all in praise and love for Langston, world-mending word man.
They sent some people yelling and others, his word-children, to write their own glory.
His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country.
Langston Hughes.
The King of Letters.
Back in the day, There was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word-making man.
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds\'s debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired
