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The Negro Speaks of Rivers

by E. B. Lewis

Picture book · ages 5–10 · grades K–5

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Why we'd hand it over

A serious, gorgeous companion to Hughes's poem—E. B. Lewis's watercolors make the ancestors visible in ways text alone cannot, and it doesn't condescend to the weight of what it's teaching.

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