The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

Powerful, exuberant, joyful, reverent-The Dream Keeper and Other Poems celebrates hopes, dreams, aspirations, life, and love. Originally published in 1932, this important collection by the great African-American writer Langston Hughes contains some of the finest twentieth-century poetry ever written. Knopf is proud to bring back this beloved classic in a striking new paperback edition with handsome scratchboard illustrations by Brian Pinkney that capture the ageless appeal of the poems. There are also seven additional poems by Hughes that are especially appropriate for children, and an introduction by noted children's poet Lee Bennett Hopkins.

Certainly The Dream Keeper is for children, but its inspirational, proud, and uplifting message will resonate in the hearts and minds of all readers today, just as it did more than half a century ago.