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There Was A Party For Langston
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There Was a Party for Langston (Caldecott Honor & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor) by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey.
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s 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 others, his word-children, to write their own glory.
Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and more came be-bopping to recite poems at their hero’s feet at that heckuva party at the Schomberg Library, dancing boom da boom, stepping and stomping, all in praise and love for Langston, world-mending word man. Oh, yeah, there was hoopla in Harlem, for its Renaissance man. A party for Langston.
From the exhibition Jazz Age Illustration on view November 8, 2025 to April 6, 2026 at Norman Rockwell Museum.
