Central Kansas Library System

A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies some of his better known poems for children.

Five poems by Langston Hughes and one anonymous one translated from the Spanish present the story of the first Christmas from different perspectives.

A collection of thirteen of Langston Hughes poems on African American themes.

"Dream Variation," one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares ... An African-American boy faces the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice, but he dreams of a different life--one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun"--