Author: Langston Huges
Title: My People
Illustrator: Charles R. Smith Jr.
Genre: Easy to Read, Poetry
Subgenre: Picture Book
Theme: The comparison of African American people to the beauty of the sun and stars.
Primary/Secondary Characters: narrator, African American people
Award(s)/Publication Year: Coretta Scott King Medal Winner/1994
Publishing Company: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Brief Summary/Book Usage: The book is a poem comparing the faces of different African American people to the beauty they have in common with the sun and the stars. I would use this book in my future classroom when we are going over poetry or during Black History Month in Feburary.
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