Pass It on: African American Poetry

by Wade Hudson

Book Overview

A collection of poetry by fourteen distinguished African-American poets features the work of Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Eloise Greenfield, among others. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590457705
• ISBN13: 9780590457705
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.6" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A childrens book that is a poetic feast for all ages.

Pass It On is a beautiful picture book of some of BlackAmerica's best poems for children. Here the reader will find examplesof the wonderful works of Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni, Countee Cullen, and about thirteen others. From the Harlem Rennaisance to the present day lovely thought-provoking poems are presented to the American child. The illustrations are muted but descriptive renderings that are melded together to present a picture of black life at its best.

Excellent

I purchased this book 5 years ago for my son and a friend's daughter, and I was so excited to read it, my son in 1st grade wrote about the poem I can and it won him a blue ribbon and right now he still has the writing for that poem eventhough he has the book in the bookshelf, when they say "Pass it On" it really mean that, now he can pass it on to his children later in life. Everyone that has borrowed the book and read to their kids have enjoyed it.I highly recommend the book to children of all age, it's also a book of life experience.Thanks for allowing me to share my thoughts.