Hold Christmas in your heart : African-American songs, poems, and stories for the holidays / compiled by Cheryl Willis Hudson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hudson, Cheryl Willis.

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

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

Series:

Cartwheel books.

Cartwheel books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christmas--Literary collections.

Christmas.

Christmas--Literary Collections.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

32 pages : color illustrations, music ; 21 x 26 cm

Edition:

[Paperback edition]

Other Title:

African-American songs, poems, and stories for the holidays

Place of Publication:

New York ; Toronto ; London : Scholastic Inc., [2002].

Contents:

It's Christmas in the house! by Mia Watson\Illustrated by Anna Rich

Tradition by Gwendolyn Brooks\Illustrated by Cal Massey

My Christmas tree by Gertrude Parthenia McBrown\Illustrated by Eric Battle

Midnight service by Marguerita Roett\Illustrated by James Ransome

Go, tell it on the mountain adapted and arranged by John W. Work III\Illustrated by Ron Garnett

Snow by Angela Shelf Medearis\Illustrated by Sylvia Walker

from Everett Anderson's year by Lucille Clifton\Illustrated by Sylvia Walker

Brer Rabbit's Christmas gift adapted by Mia Watson\Illustrated by Eric Battle

Christmas kittens by Cheryl Willis Hudson\Illustrated by Higgins Bond]

Carol of the brown king by Langston Hughes\Illustrated by Cal Massey

Children, go where I send thee (Black traditional carol) Illustrated by Anna Rich

California Christmas by Toyomi Igus\Illustrated by Ron Garnett

Christmas Valentine by Nikki Grimes\Illustrated by Cal Massey

Shepherd's song at Christmas by Langston Hughes\Illustrated by Ron Garnett

Christmas is a-comin' by Huddie Ledbetter\Illustrated by Anna Rich

New Year's wish by Cheryl Willis Hudson\Illustrated by Cal Massey.

Notes:

"First Scholastic paperback printing, October 2002."

"Published by Scholastic Inc. by arrangement with Just Us Books, Inc. 356 Glenwood Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey."

"A host of African-American authors and artists beautifully convey all the joys of the holiday season in this richly illustrated anthology ..."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0590480251 :

OCLC:

50816055