Research Catalog

Title

Hip hop speaks to children : a celebration of poetry with a beat / editor, Nikki Giovanni ; advisory editors, Tony Medina, Willie Perdomo and Michele Scott.

Publication

• Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, [2008]
• ©2008

Supplementary Content

Image

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Giovanni, Nikki
• Medina, Tony
• Perdomo, Willie
• Scott, Michele

Description

72 pages : color illustrations, color map; 28 cm +

Summary

More than 50 poems and an accompanying CD introduce poetry with a beat.

Subjects

• Children's poetry, American
• Poetry
• Echo verse
• Children's audiobooks
• American poetry > African American authors
• Audiobooks
• Juvenile works

Genre/Form

• Audiobooks.
• Children's audiobooks.
• Juvenile works.
• Poetry.
• Echo verse.

Note

• Includes index.

Performer (note)

• Performed by many of the original artists.

Contents

Things / Eloise Greenfield -- Hip hop rules the world / Jacqueline Woodson -- I think I'll call it morning / Gil Scott-Heron -- Aloneness / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The girls in the circle / Nikki Giovanni -- From "Ham n eggs" / A tribe called Quest -- Music for fun and profit / Gary Soto -- Audition / Hope Anita Smith -- from "Hey Mama" / Kanye West -- Dream Boogie / Langston Hughes -- Funky snowman / Calef Brown -- Oh words / Eloise Greenfield -- from "Rapper's delight" / Sugarhill Gang -- from "Ladies first" / Queen Latifah -- People equal / James Berry -- from "It's love" / Jill Scott -- from "Umi Says" / Mos Def -- Taking action / James Berry -- Dream variations / Langston Hughes -- Allow me to introduce myself / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Me / Elizabeth Swados -- Dat dere / Oscar Brown Jr. -- Books / Eloise Greenfield -- For word / Benjamin Zephaniah -- Waitin' on summer / Ruth Forman -- Jimmy Wall, 14, boy evangelist / Walter Dean Myers -- from "Principal's office" / Young MC -- Love poem for my people / Pedro Pietri -- why some people be mad at me sometimes / Lucille Clifton -- from "Love is ..." / Common -- Harlem night song / Langston Hughes -- Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou -- from "The Creation" / James Weldon Johnson -- Ego tripping / Nikki Giovanni -- from "No regrets" / Aesop Rock -- First signature / Angela Shannon -- No images / William Waring Cuney -- Everything is everything / Lauryn Hill -- The Rose that grew from concrete / Tupac Shakur -- Long track blues / Sterling A. Brown -- from "Talkin' all that jazz" / Stetsasonic -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- If we must die / Claude McKay -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Who will cry? / Antwone Fisher -- The song of the smoke / W.E.B. DuBois -- Doubtless by Steve Ericson / Nikki Giovanni -- The negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- If we forget / Ja Jahannes -- from "I have a dream" / Martin Luther King Jr.

Call Number

J 811.08 H

ISBN

• 9781402210488
• 1402210485

LCCN

• 2008004627
• 9781402210488

OCLC

192048048

Title

Hip hop speaks to children : a celebration of poetry with a beat / editor, Nikki Giovanni ; advisory editors, Tony Medina, Willie Perdomo and Michele Scott.

Publisher

Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, [2008]

Copyright Date

©2008

Type of Content

text

spoken word

Type of Medium

unmediated

audio

Type of Carrier

volume

audio disc

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

African Americans

Americans

Cast

Performed by many of the original artists.

Connect to:

Table of contents

Image

Table of contents only

Added Author

Giovanni, Nikki, editor.

Medina, Tony, editor.

Perdomo, Willie, editor.

Scott, Michele, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Hip hop speaks to children. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, ©2008 (OCoLC)735523558

Other Standard Identifier

9781402210488 (alk. paper)

Research Call Number

J 811.08 H