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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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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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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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What's the hurry, Fox?
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Joyce Carol Thomas |
Presents a volume of pourquoi tales collected by Zora Neale Hurston from her field research in the Gulf states in the 1920s. |
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Folk beliefs of the southern Negro
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Newbell Niles Puckett |
Originally produced as for a Doctorate of Philosophy at Yale, this remarkable history of twenty or so years of Black life in the South is fascinating. Centering around folklore and superstition, it d… |
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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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