![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() The physical intimacy of mother and child “cuddleclose” is timeless. VERDICT A lovely send-off to the land of dreams. The full poem is printed at the back, along with a 1902 photo of an infant Hughes in his mother’s arms and a biographical note about the poet. Baby-ToddlerCrafted from Hughess lilting words, this sturdy version of a previously published book sings of a Black mothers love through her 'sleep-song lullaby.' Night stars, diamond moon, and mother and child are rendered ever so tenderly in paint and collage. One particularly stirring spread shows a close-up of the mother bouncing her baby above the crib with the world outside the window (“A necklace of stars / winding the night”). Baby-ToddlerCrafted from Hughes's lilting words, this sturdy version of a previously published book sings of a Black mother's love through her 'sleep-song lullaby.' Night stars, diamond moon, and mother and child are rendered ever so tenderly in paint and collage. ![]() At the heart of the words and pictures is the parent-baby bond, but, asthe moving afterword points out, there are longing and loneliness, too, echoed in the silhouetted profiles of mother and child “kissing the night” from opposite ends of the double-page spread. Hughes’ classic lullaby gets a loving lift with Qualls graceful artwork in this picture book that shows a beautiful baby in its loving mother’s embrace, dancing in the night sky among the stars, floating on a chair in the clouds over the Harlem city lights, and celebrating the dark. ![]()
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