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POPO AND FIFINA HAITI and the Harlem Renaissance. Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes. ISBN # 0-19-508765-8. 110 pages. The novel opens as Papa Jean, Mamma Anna and little Popo and Finina, along with baby Pensia are approaching Cape Haiti. They are moving from the countryside where Papa Jean had supported them by farming, to the town where he can ...
This collaboration between Harlem Renaissance writers Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes is an early African-Aamerican classic and a milestone in the history of literature for children. In this novel for young people, Popo and Fifina leave their home in the hills of Haiti to move with their parents to a town by the sea.
5 de out. de 2010 · To see all of E. Simms Campbell's illustrations for Popo and Fifina, see my Flickr set here. Background material on Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps comes from Volume One of Arnold Rampersad's definitive biography The Life of Langston Hughes, and from Rampersad's introduction and afterward to a 1993 Oxford University Press edition of Popo and Fifina, which is now also out of print.
21 de out. de 1993 · When Popo and Fifina was first published in 1932, it was greeted with universal approval. The New York Times praised its "simple home-like atmosphere" and suggested that all children's books "should be written by poets."
- Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes
In this novel for young people, Popo and Fifina leave their home in the hills of Haiti to move with their parents to a town by the sea. The next few months are full of adventures--adjusting to a new home, a trip back to the hills for a visit, Popo's work as a carpenter's apprentice, the children's fun with a wondrous kits made by their father ...
Books for Children. POPO AND FIFINA. Children of Haiti. By Arna Bontemps & Langston Hughes. Illustrations by E. Simms Campbell. ere is a travel book that is a model of its kind. Facts, indeed, the reader acquires, but unconsciously, for what he feels is the atmosphere of the island of Haiti, dusty little roads that wind along the hills, sun ...
Hardcover – January 1, 1932. This collaboration between Harlem Renaissance writers Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes is an early African-Aamerican classic and a milestone in the history of literature for children. In this novel for young people, Popo and Fifina leave their home in the hills of Haiti to move with their parents to a town by the ...
- Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes
