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Genre/Form: | Picture books Alphabet rhymes Juvenile works Poetry Juvenile poetry |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ashley Bryan's ABC of African-American poetry. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©1997 (OCoLC)605234503 Online version: Ashley Bryan's ABC of African-American poetry. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©1997 (OCoLC)609318552 |
Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ashley Bryan |
ISBN: | 0689812094 9780689812095 0329029266 9780329029265 |
OCLC Number: | 35001779 |
Notes: | "A Jean Karl book." |
Awards: | Coretta Scott King Honor, illustrator, 1998. |
Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm |
Contents: | A. James Weldon Johnson -- B. Dudley Randall -- C. Robert Hayden (Sojourner Truth poem) -- D. Countee Cullen -- E. Henry Dumas -- F. Langston Hughes ("Freedom") -- G. Anne Spencer -- H. Eloise Greenfield (Harriet Tubman) -- I. Raymond Patterson -- J. Rita Dove -- K. Gwendolyn Brooks -- L. Lucille Clifton -- M. Margaret Walker -- N. Owen Dodson -- O. Haki Madhubuti -- P. Nikki Giovanni -- Q. Maya Angelou -- R. Roll Jordan Roll: Black American Spiritual -- S. Samuel Allen (Satchel Paige -- T. Paul Laurence Dunbar -- U. Imamu Amiri Baraka -- V. Sterling Brown -- W. Mari Evans -- X. Audre Lorde -- Y. James Emanuel -- Z. Frank Marshall Davis. |
Other Titles: | ABC of African-American poetry |
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Abstract:
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a line from a poem by different African American poets, describing an aspect of the black experience.
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- Children's poetry, American.
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