{"product_id":"there-was-a-party-for-langston-caldecott-honor-coretta-scott-king-illustrator-honor-9781534439443","title":"There Was a Party for Langston: (Caldecott Honor \u0026 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Caldecott Honor Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds's debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBack in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word-making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling and others, his word-children, to write their own glory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and more came be-bopping to recite poems at their hero's feet at that heckuva party at the Schomberg Library, dancing boom da boom, stepping and stomping, all in praise and love for Langston, world-mending word man. Oh, yeah, there was hoopla in Harlem, for its Renaissance man. A party for Langston.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atheneum Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.60h x 9.80w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781534439443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Lower Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e522465 \/ There Was a Party for Langston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Caldecott Medal - Honor Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Coretta Scott King Award - Honor Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2023 pg. 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023 pg. 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBulletin of Ctr for Child Bks\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHorn Book Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2023 pg. 105\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHornbook Guide to Children\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2023 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJason Reynolds is a #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author, recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a 2024 MacArthur Fellow, a Kirkus Award winner, a UK Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner and two-time honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors, a Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. He was also the 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. His many books include \u003ci\u003eAll American Boys\u003c\/i\u003e (cowritten with Brendan Kiely); \u003ci\u003eWhen I Was the Greatest\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Boy in the Black Suit\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStamped\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAs Brave as You\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFor Every One\u003c\/i\u003e; the Track series (\u003ci\u003eGhost, Patina, Sunny\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLu\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCoach\u003c\/i\u003e); \u003ci\u003eLook Both Ways\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStuntboy, in the Meantime\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStuntboy, In-Between Time\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMiles Morales Suspended\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAin't Burned All the Bright \u003c\/i\u003e(recipient of the Caldecott Honor) and \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Jason. Mine Too.\u003c\/i\u003e (both cowritten with Jason Griffin); \u003ci\u003eTwenty-Four Seconds from Now...\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eLong Way Down\u003c\/i\u003e, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book, \u003ci\u003eThere Was a Party for Langston\u003c\/i\u003e, won a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJerome Pumphrey is a designer, illustrator, and writer. His work includes \u003ci\u003eIt's a Sign!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSomewhere in the Bayou\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Boat\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Old Truck\u003c\/i\u003e, which received seven starred reviews, was named a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, and received the Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award Honor--all of which he created with his brother Jarrett. They also illustrated Jason Reynolds's \u003ci\u003eThere Was a Party for Langston\u003c\/i\u003e, which received a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. Jerome works as a graphic designer at The Walt Disney Company. He lives in Texas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJarrett Pumphrey is an award-winning author-illustrator who makes books for kids with his brother, Jerome. 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