african american authors

Sixteen poems tell of love and the simple joys of everyday life, seen through the eyes of a child.

An anthology of a wide range of African-American literature including folklore, history, poetry, and biography, all intended to be read aloud to children.

A collection of fifty-one children's poems that features selections from Nikki Giovanni, Queen Latifah, and the Sugarhill Gang; and contains an audio CD with thirty performances.

An anthology of twentieth-century African-American short stories written by Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, and more than fifty others, with biographical notes.

Presents a collection of poems by twentieth-century African-American poet and author Gwendolyn Brooks.

Artwork and poems by such writers as Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and Askia Tour? portray the creativity, strength, and beauty of their African-American heritage.

Presents a collection of poems exploring the theme of African-American identity.

An illustrated collection of poetry by such African-American poets as Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni, Eloise Greenfield,and Lucille Clifton.

Contains essays written in the years between 1929 and the 1940s by writers employed by the Work Projects Administration who were assigned to gather information about the lives of ordinary men and women living in New York's Harlem.