العثور على لانغستون

We listened to this on a long drive and my daughter got quiet in the back seat, then asked me what a "kitchenette" was. It opened up a whole conversation about the Great Migration I wasn't expecting from a kids' story.

I wasn't sure my daughter would stick with a story about a boy in 1946 Chicago, but she finished the whole card in one sitting and asked what Langston Hughes poems were next. The narrator handles the South Side setting and the heavier parts about losing his mother gently enough for her age.

My son listened to this one twice in a row on a long car ride, and even I got pulled in by the way it captures Chicago in 1946. The narration really brings out the loneliness and hope as Langston discovers Hughes’s poetry.