LITERATURE
Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Lives: Poems about Famous Americans

(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Leslie Staub. Sacajawea, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and Langston Hughes are some of the sixteen Americans whose lives are celebrated in this collection. Poets include Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, J. Patrick Lewis, and Alice Schertle. Each poem faces an oil portrait of its subject rendered in a folk-art style. Brief biographical information about each person is appended.

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