- African Americans, Tales, Slavery, Folklore
"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 beautifully readable. With the added attraction of 40 wonderfully expressive paintings by the Dillons, this collection should be snapped up."--(starred) School Library Journal.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and effortless.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Virginia Hamilton
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 178
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Dragonfly Books, Audio Bookshelf
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375824050
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“Say that he Lion would get up each and every mornin.”
Virginia Hamilton was born and raised in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She attended Antioch College on a scholarship, and then transferred to Ohio State University in 1956 to study literature and creative writing. In 1958 she moved to New York City where she worked odd jobs, studied fiction writing at the New School for Social Research, and wrote. Hamilton married in 1960 and became a full-time writer. In 1967 she published her first book, Zeely, published in 1967, which won numerous awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 1969, Hamilton and her family moved
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