LITERATURE
Hughes, Langston

Sail Away

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Ashley Bryan. Drawing on Matisse, seemingly, as inspiration in technique, color, line, and shape, Bryan crafts vivid paper collages to illustrate a selection of water-related poetry by Langston Hughes. The construction-paper palette--a rainbow of pastels, jewel tones, browns, and grays--vibrates with energy. Happy faces, in a variety of dark complexions, smile up from boats and riverbanks, populating a brilliant world suffused with light.

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