Coming Home
Publication Information
Author:  Cooper, Floyd	Illustrator:  Cooper, Floyd
Title:  Coming Home	Date:  1994
Publisher:  Philomel	City:  New York, NY
ISBN, paperback:  0-399-22682-6	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    biography and autobiography
HSE Descriptor(s):    language arts - reading
Summary:
The book tells the story of Langston Hughes' lonely childhood, demonstrating that certain themes and ideas that later emerged in Hughes' poetry grew from his experiences as a child.
Teaching Ideas:
This book may be fun to read aloud after a few class sessions of studying Hughes' poetry (see especially The Dream Keepers and Other Poems or The Book of Rhythms). Teachers may want to use this book as part of a unit on writers' biographies, looking also at Kroll's Lives of Writers, or the biographical sketches in Agard and Nichols' A Caribbean Dozen, or Bedard's Emily. It would fit neatly into a unit on influential African-Americans, along with biographies such as Davis' Dear Benjamin Banneker, or Adler's Jesse Owens.` www.learner.org/catalog/literature/vvseries/vvspot/Hughes.html
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