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That Is My Dream!

"Dream Variation," one of Langston Hughes's poems about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice is now a picture book.

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To fling my arms wide

In some place of the sun,

To whirl and to dance

Till the white day is done....

Follow one African-American boy through the course of his day as the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice comes into vivid focus. But the boy dreams of a different life—one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun.

Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages
Form
poetry

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