LITERATURE
Hughes, Langston

Carol of the Brown King: Nativity Poems

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Ashley Bryan. Six Langston Hughes Christmas poems, unexceptional in themselves, evoke from Ashley Bryan paintings--of the Wise Men, of the Holy Family, of a certain shepherd--that combine traditional iconography and composition with his own African-inflected language of exploding patterns, colors, forms. For children of color especially but for all children prospectively, Bryan brings the Nativity home.

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