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Langston's train ride
Burleigh, Robert.

Type/Location		Call Number		Copies		Format
Youth: Picture Books		J BURLEIGH		1		Book

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Publisher:	Orchard Books,
Pub date:	2004.
Pages:	1 v. (unpaged) :
ISBN:	0439352398

Summary

Traveling to see his father in 1920, writer Langston Hughes listened to the sounds of the train, which inspired him to write his first famous poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." This picture book tells the story of Hughes's rise to accomplishing his dream of being a writer. Full color. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

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Personal Author:	Burleigh, Robert.
Title:	Langston's train ride / by Robert Burleigh ; illustrated by Leonard Jenkins.
Edition:	1st ed.
Publication info:	New York : Orchard Books, 2004.
Physical descrip:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Summary:	Describes how the twentieth-century African American poet Langston Hughes affirms his vocation as a writer through the composition of his famous 1921 poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Personal subject:	Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967--Juvenile literature.
Personal subject:	Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Subject term:	Poets, American--20th century--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Subject term:	African American poets--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Children's subject:	Poets, American.
Children's subject:	African Americans--Biography.
Added author:	Jenkins, Leonard.
key:	ocm52520229
ISBN:	0439352398