There Was a Party for Langston: King O' Letters
Author:
Jason Reynolds
Illustrator:
Jarrett Pumphrey, Jerome Pumphrey
Publication:
2023 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Genre:
Biography, Fiction, History, Picture Books
Pages:
56
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You are INVITED
From the dust jacket
To a most
marvelous
party.
For a most
marvelous man.
A man who turned
the alphabet into
THUMP A BUMP.
Who turned words into
JAZZ into RIVERS into
BUSTIN' A MOVE.
All of his word-children
will be there, uh-huh.
Because it's a party for
LANGSTON.
Langston Hughes.
King o' Letters.
Renaissance Man.
So don't be shy.
Come on in.
To the
Hoopla in Harlem.
EVERYONE is welcome.
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