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Hip hop speaks to children : a celebration of poetry with a beat / editor, Nikki Giovanni ; advisory editors, Tony Medina, Willie Perdomo and Michele Scott ... ; illustrators, Kristen Balouch, Michele Noiset, Jeremy Tugeau, Alicia Vergel de Dios, and Damian Ward.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PS591.N4 H55 2008 1 v. + audio disc
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's poetry, American.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- Audiobooks.
- Children's audiobooks.
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Echo verse.
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, [2008]
- Summary:
- More than 50 poems and an accompanying CD introduce poetry with a beat.
- Contents:
- Things / Eloise Greenfield
- Hip hop rules the world / Jacqueline Woodson
- I think I'll call it morning / Gil Scott-Heron
- Aloneness / Gwendolyn Brooks
- The girls in the circle / Nikki Giovanni
- From "Ham n eggs" / A tribe called Quest
- Music for fun and profit / Gary Soto
- Audition / Hope Anita Smith
- from "Hey Mama" / Kanye West
- Dream Boogie / Langston Hughes
- Funky snowman / Calef Brown
- Oh words / Eloise Greenfield
- from "Rapper's delight" / Sugarhill Gang
- from "Ladies first" / Queen Latifah
- People equal / James Berry
- from "It's love" / Jill Scott
- from "Umi Says" / Mos Def
- Taking action / James Berry
- Dream variations / Langston Hughes
- Allow me to introduce myself / Charles R. Smith, Jr.
- Me / Elizabeth Swados
- Dat dere / Oscar Brown Jr.
- Books / Eloise Greenfield
- For word / Benjamin Zephaniah
- Waitin' on summer / Ruth Forman
- Jimmy Wall, 14, boy evangelist / Walter Dean Myers
- from "Principal's office" / Young MC
- Love poem for my people / Pedro Pietri
- why some people be mad at me sometimes / Lucille Clifton
- from "Love is ..." / Common
- Harlem night song / Langston Hughes
- Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou
- from "The Creation" / James Weldon Johnson
- Ego tripping / Nikki Giovanni
- from "No regrets" / Aesop Rock
- First signature / Angela Shannon
- No images / William Waring Cuney
- Everything is everything / Lauryn Hill
- The Rose that grew from concrete / Tupac Shakur
- Long track blues / Sterling A. Brown
- from "Talkin' all that jazz" / Stetsasonic
- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
- If we must die / Claude McKay
- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Who will cry? / Antwone Fisher
- The song of the smoke / W.E.B. DuBois
- Doubtless by Steve Ericson / Nikki Giovanni
- The negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes
- If we forget / Ja Jahannes
- from "I have a dream" / Martin Luther King Jr.
- Participant:
- Performed by many of the original artists.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hip hop speaks to children.
- ISBN:
- 9781402210488
- 1402210485
- OCLC:
- 192048048
- Publisher Number:
- 9781402210488 (alk. paper)
- Online:
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