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Her stories
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Leo Dillon,Virginia Hamilton,Diane Dillon |
A few folktales, animal tales, fairy tales and even some actually true herstories collected and retold by Virginia Hamilton. |
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A ring of tricksters
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Virginia Hamilton |
Twelve trickster tales that show the migration of African culture to America via the West Indies. |
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When birds could talk & bats could sing
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Virginia Hamilton |
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 Ci… |
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The People Could Fly
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Virginia Hamilton |
"The well-known author retells 24 black American folk tales in sure storytelling voice: animal tales, supernatural tales, fanciful and cautionary tales, and slave tales of freedom. All are beautifull… |
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Moaning bones
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James Haskins |
More than fifteen tales from the oral tradition probably originally recorded in the 1920s and 1930s such as "The Haunted Stateroom,""Black Tom," and "The Ghost in the Back Seat." |
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Callie Ann and Mistah Bear
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Robert D. San Souci |
A bear disguised as a fine, handsome man comes courting Callie's mother and Callie must outwit the bear to prevent her mother from marrying it. |
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Wiley and the Hairy Man
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Judy Sierra |
With his mother's help, Wiley outwits the conjuring Hairy Man that lives in the swamp near their home. |
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Afro-American folktales
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Roger D. Abrahams |
The 107 tales demonstrate the ways an uprooted people have drawn from the traditions of their past to fashion a life in the New World. |
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Beyond the briar patch
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Lyn Ford |
"Lyn Ford, an African-American storyteller, honored by her peers nationally, retells traditional stories and folkways from her cultural heritage"-- |
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More tales of Uncle Remus
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Julius Lester |
A retelling of the continuing adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies. |
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Further tales of Uncle Remus
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Julius Lester |
A retelling of the classic Afro-American tales relating the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies. |
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A voice for the people
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Nina Jaffe |
A biography of the folklorist and novelist who recorded the traditional songs and stories of the people of Haiti, the Hopi Indians, and black communities in the South, connecting the African-American… |
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Mules and Men (P.S.)
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Zora Neale Hurston |
Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an o… |
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Way up and over everything
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Alice McGill |
In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air. |
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From My People
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Daryl Cumber Dance |
"Folklore displays the heart and soul of a people. African American folklore not only hands down traditions and wisdom through the generations, it tells the history of a people who were banned from r… |
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Long Gone
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Daryl Cumber Dance |
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Brer Rabbit
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David Borgenicht |
Welcome to the Old Plantation, a place where rabbits trick, foxes hunt, turtles race, possums play dead, bears swing upside-down, and everyone gets caught up in the laughter and music of life. You wi… |
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John Henry
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Christianne C. Jones |
Read-it! Readers: Tall Tales These well-known legends will become well-loved books, as readers learn these classic tall tales through lively illustrations and unforgettable characters. |
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Little Eight John
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Jan Wahl |
Little Eight John, as mean as mean there was, persists in disobeying his mother until he finds his mischief backfiring on him. |
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John Henry
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Ezra Jack Keats |
Describes the life of the legendary steel-driving man who was born with and who died with a hammer in his hand. |
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