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Cover of The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

Picture book · Children

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

written by Langston Hughes, illustrated by E.B. Lewis

2009

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About the book

The famous poem, taken from The collected poems of Langston Hughes (c1994), illustrated with watercolors.

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