Article: Rhythm and rhyme: a few selections to help youngsters celebrate poetry month.(The Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Jimi and Me, Jazz A B Z: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits, Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes, Visiting Langston, Hush, Little Baby, The Six Fools: Collected by Zora Neale Hurston)(Book review)(Children's Review)

The Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance

Selected by Daphne Muse illustrated by Charlotte Riley-Webb Abrams, February 2006 $16.95, ISBN 0-810-95997-6 Ages 5-9

This collection features the works of Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay and other poets who lived during Harlem's heyday. The book also includes a brief biography of writers, as well as bold, full-page drawings.

Jimi and Me by Jaime Adoff Jump at the Sun, September 2005 $15.99, ISBN 0-786-85214-3 With chapters written entirely in short poems, Adoff's lyrical book tells of a boy who deals with the death of his father--all through the music of Jimi Hendrix.

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