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That Is My Dream!
By Hughes, Langston
- ISBN
- 9780399550171 9780399550188 9780399550195
- Publisher
- Schwartz & Wade/Random
REVIEWS
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on October 1, 2017
Langston Hughes's 1924 poem "Dream Variation" tells of a wish "to fling my arms wide / In some place of the sun, / To whirl and to dance / Till the white day is done." Miyares's gouache illustrations show an African American child (the poem's narrator) in the segregated South noticing his own family's experiences on the bus, at the water fountain, etc., compared to those of a white boy and his family's. Partway through the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2018
Langston Hughes's 1924 poem "Dream Variation" tells of a wish "to fling my arms wide / In some place of the sun, / To whirl and to dance / Till the white day is done." Miyares's gouache illustrations show an African American child (the poem's narrator) in the segregated South noticing his own family's experiences on the bus, at the water fountain, etc., compared to those of a white boy and his family's. Partway through the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
