My People

My People by Langston Hughes, illustrated by Charles R. Smith Jr.
2010 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

This book features a poem by Langston Hughes illustrated with photographs of black people. The poem is short and simple--- only 33 words! But written in the 1920's when the words must have meant a lot, celebrating the beauty of the black people inside and out. The black and white photography that illustrates the poem are lovely, moving, silly,  beautiful, young and old and you wanna like all the people in the book.