LITERATURE
Perdomo, Willie

Visiting Langston

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Bryan Collier. "Langston / Langston / Langston Hughes / Wrote poems / Like jazz / Sang like love / Cried like blues." A young "Harlem girl," a poet in her own right, reflects on Hughes's life as she and her father tour the poet's home. Chaotic collage and watercolor illustrations feature portraits of Hughes as well as of the narrator and her father. An author's note is included.

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