The people could fly : American Black folktales / told by Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Virginia.

Contributor:

Dillon, Leo, illustrator.

Dillon, Diane, illustrator.

Bierhorst, Jane Byers, designer.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Folklore.

African Americans.

Tales--United States.

Tales.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House, Inc.], [1985]

Summary:

Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.

Contents:

He LIon, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit and Other Animal Tales

The Beautiful Girl of the Moon Tower and Other Tales of the Real, Extravagant, and Fanciful

John and the Devil's Daughter and Other Tales of the Supernatural

Carrying the Running-Aways and Other Slave Tales of Freedom.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."

"Designed by Jane Byers Bierhorst."

Title page printed in green and black.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178).

Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Winner, 1986

Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Illustrator, Honor, 1986

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copies 1 & 2: dustjackets retained.

Banks Collection copy 2 has "Report Card Aerospace Experience at the Anacostia Museum with the Air and Space Museum" and bookmark laid in.

ISBN:

0394869257

0394969251

OCLC:

11397814