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Burleigh, Robert

Langston's Train Ride

32 pp. | Scholastic/Orchard | October, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-439-35239-8 $16.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Leonard Jenkins. Burleigh tries to convey the creative process by assuming Langston Hughes's voice to describe a ride on a train from Illinois across the Mississippi to Mexico, on which Hughes wrote his famous poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The text is unconvincing and wordy, but Jenkins's art is more successful, using mixed media to capture both Hughes's experience of the train ride and the power of his poetry.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke

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