Make a joyful sound
Make a joyful sound: poems for children by African-American poets
illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu; edited by Deborah Slier
Publisher: New York : Scholastic, 1996.
ISBN: 0590674323
Edition: (alk. paper)
Summary:
A collection of traditional and contemporary poems covering a wide
range of topics focusing on the African-American experience.
Notes:
Includes indexes.
Nationhood / Useni Eugene Perkins -- By myself / Eloise Greenfield --
Timmy and Tawanda / Gwendolyn Brooks -- September / Lucille Clifton
-- Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni -- Summer vacation / Karama
Fufuka -- Poem / Langston Hughes -- Rudolph is tired of the city /
Gwendolyn Brooks -- Parades / Karama Fufuka -- John Coltrane ditty /
Dakari Kamau Hru -- Little soul sister / Useni Eugene Perkins --
Willimae's cornrows / Nanette Mellage -- Crown / Dakari Kamau Hru --
Black is beautiful / Useni Eugene Perkins -- In the playground /
Abiodun Oyewole -- Milehigh Jeff the giant hare; Sorry, sorry Mrs.
Lorry / Nanette Mellage -- April rain song / Langston Hughes --
Things / Eloise Greenfield -- For peace sake / Cedric McClester --
Rhapsody / William Stanley Braithwaite -- Hope; My people / Langston
Hughes -- What color is black? / Barbara Mahone -- Africa / Abiodun
Oyewole -- Color / Langston Hughes -- Haiku / Sonia Sanchez -- #4 /
Doughtry Long -- Pretty brown baby / Karama Fufuka -- Ayo / Useni
Eugene Perkins -- A welcome song for Laini Nzinga / Gwendolyn Brooks
-- The mask / Dakari Kamau Hru -- Aunt Sue's stories / Langston
Hughes -- "Kwanzaa is ..." / Cedric McClester -- Harriet Tubman /
Eloise Greenfield -- Lullaby / Langston Hughes -- Who can be born
black / Mari Evans -- A protest poem for Rosa Parks / Abiodun Oyewole
-- Ballad of John Henry; Martin Luther King Jr. / Useni Eugene
Perkins -- A poem for "Magic" / Quincy Troupe -- Pigeons and peanuts
for sale / Nanette Mellage -- Big Mama / Karama Fufuka -- Fine Black
kinfolk / Dakari Kamau Hru -- Brothers / Langston Hughes -- Andre /
Gwendolyn Brooks -- My daddy is a cool dude / Karama Fufuka -- Love
don't mean / Eloise Greenfield --To Don at Salaam / Gwendolyn Brooks
-- Father to son / Alfred L. Woods -- Mother to son / Langston Hughes
-- Who am I / Kali Grosvenor -- Under the mistletoe / Countee Cullen
-- Hey Black child / Useni Eugene Perkins -- August 8 / Norman Jordan
-- Snail / Langston Hughes -- Tommy / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Kick and
live / G.W. Porter -- To catch a fish / Nanette Mellage -- I love the
sea / Alfred M. Cruikshank -- Mocking bird / Nanette Mellage -- All I
am; One day / Abiodun Oyewole -- Flying kites / Quincy Troupe -- The
poet speaks / John Henrik Clarke -- Butterfly; Moving right along /
Abiodun Oyewole -- Your world / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- If
sometimes blue / Alfred L. Woods -- Fireflies / Quincy Troupe --
Another mountain / Abiodun Oyewole -- Winter poem / Nikki Giovanni --
Science ... / Gordon Nelson -- Dreams; The dream keeper / Langston
Hughes.
Book Details:
Language: eng
Physical Description: 107 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Edition Info: (alk. paper)
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