There Was a Party for Langston Poetry / Women Authors / American - African American & Black / Social Science / Discrimination his lush paintings perfectly capture

his lush paintings perfectly capture the wonder of the moon

funny novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award Finalist

-Ezra Klein

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book

There Was a Party for Langston Poetry / Women Authors / American - African American & Black / Social Science / Discrimination his lush paintings perfectly captureNew York Times bestselling and award winning author Jason Reynoldss debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired. Back in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling and