FICTION

Lullaby (for a Black Mother)

by Langston Hughes (text) & illus. by Sean Qualls

Clarion. Sept. 2021. 20p. Board $8.99. ISBN 9780358566151.

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Baby-Toddler–Crafted from Hughes’s lilting words, this sturdy version of a previously published book sings of a Black mother’s love through her “sleep-song lullaby.” Night stars, diamond moon, and mother and child are rendered ever so tenderly in paint and collage.

VERDICT A lovely send-off to the land of dreams.

Reviewed by Jan Aldrich Solow, formerly Fairfax County P.S., VA , Oct 01, 2021

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