When birds could talk & bats could sing

By Virginia Hamilton

Subjects: Birds, Animals, fiction, African Americans, African americans, folklore, Folklore, united states, Tales, Children's stories, African American, Bats, Folklore, Animals, folklore, juvenile literature

Description: A collection of stories, featuring sparrows, jays, buzzards, and bats, based on those African American tales originally written down by Martha Young on her father's plantation in Alabama after the Civil War.