Let the rain sing you a lullaby.Langston Hughes quotes TravelTuesday Gorgeous, misty morning above the Blue Ridge Mountains. Swan's poetry has been taught in schools and has been published in France, the UK, Bahamas, and Canada. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. For four years Dane and Dan D'Onorio hosted Toronto's $100 Slam series. He has graced numerous festival stages, including: IFOA, Hillside, Lab Cab, Parkdale Arts, Junction Arts, and Pitter Patter festivals. Dane is also an accomplished slam poet and touring spoken-word performer, placing second at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, third at the Rust Belt Regional Slam and touring the US Midwest and West Coast regions. Dane is the editor of Changing the Face of Canadian Literature: A Diverse Canadian Anthology. His first book, Bending the Continuum (Guernica Editions, 2011), was a mid-summer recommended read from Open Book Toronto. A past Writer in Residence for the Open Book Foundation of Ontario, Dane has been short listed for the Monica Ladell Award (Scarborough Arts). With graceful words as smooth as a song, the poet Langston Hughes celebrates the love between a mother and her baby. Beautiful story, beautiful language, and beautiful poem.Dane Swan's second book, A Mingus Lullaby (Guernica Editions, 2016), was a finalist for the 2017 Trillium Book Prize for Poetry. Children will be able to easily read this story with its simplistic style and wording. Rating: I’m a sucker for poems, so when you incorporate the aspect of love then I can’t help but give it a 5/5. My favorite is probably the picture where the mother is holding the baby in the air, arms stretched out for the stars.

Working with red, yellow, navy, blue and a number of other colors they create a beautiful picture of the bond the mother and baby have. A mother’s love is something no one can replicate.Īrtistic/Literary: The illustrator uses watercolor for the pictures. Also, mother recognizes that her baby is beautiful and wishes to profess her love in any way she can. This picture book edition is a gift to share.Award-winning illustrator Sean Qualls’s painted and collaged artwork captures universally powerful maternal moments with. She wants to make sure from an early age the baby knows she/he is beautiful how they are. With graceful words as smooth as a song, the poet Langston Hughes celebrates the love between a mother and her baby. Mother describes her baby as a “beautiful black baby”, and “dark baby”. My little dark baby, / My little earth-thing, / My little love-one, / What shall I sing / For your lullaby With gracefully chosen words as smooth as a song. How she would make a necklace of stars for her baby if she could. The lyrical poem and illustrations show the bond between a mother and her child and celebrates a bedtime ritual that everyone can relate to.

The mother wonders what she should sing about so she starts singing about the night.

Review: Here we read a poem about a mother singing a lullaby to her baby.

Lullaby by langston hughes