

Amazing Places
Fall 2015 PoetryGathering original poems by diverse poets, including his own tribute to Langston Hughes, Lee Bennett Hopkins has created a fascinating multi-ethnic anthology. Hopkins's collection celebrates the diversity of people and places across our country - from Fenway Park to Denali National Park and from Linda Sue Park's poem about the Liberty Bell to Jane Medina's poem about the desire to run away to a circus: "I'm running away with people who fly/ I'll dance and/I'll laugh/and forget how to cry."
With end papers of the United States, that show the locations of these "amazing places," paragraphs describing these locations at the end of the book, and fine-line, full color, full page illustrations, this is a unique and meaningful anthology.