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Listen children : an anthology of Black literature / edited by Dorothy S. Strickland ; with a foreword by Coretta Scott King ; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.
LIBRA - Rare PS508.N3 L57 1982 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people.
- Literature--Collections.
- Literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature.
- American literature--20th century.
- Children's literature.
- Genre:
- Collections.
- Juvenile works.
- Children's literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 120 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Bantam Books, Inc., 1982.
- Summary:
- Here, the works of gifted Black writers depict a world of energy, pathos, humor, and strength that brings a rich literary experience to its readers.
- Contents:
- Feeling the joy of being me. Way down in the music: a poem / Eloise Greenfield ; Andre: a poem / by Gwendolyn Brooks ; How Jahdu became himself: a story / Virginia Hamilton ; To P.J. (2 yrs old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon): a poem / Sonia Sanchez ; All around the mulberry tree: a story / Kristin Hunter
- Feelings about my roots: folktales and folkways. From African poems: a poem / Don L. Lee ; Brothers: a poem / Langston Hughes ; The snake king: a story retold / by Kathleen Arnott ; Ol-Ambu and He-of-the-long-sleeping-place: a story / Verna Aardema ; Ancestors: a poem / Dudley Randall
- Feeling the pain and pride of struggle. My people: a poem / Langston Hughes ; My pa was never slave: a poem / Harriet Wheatley ; When the rattlesnake sounds: a play / Alice Childress ; From Rosa Parks: a biography / Eloise Greenfield ; I have a dream: text of a speech / Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Feelings about who I am and what I want to be. Lineage: a poem / Margaret Walker ; Knoxville, Tennessee: a poem / Nikki Giovanni ; From I know why the caged bird sings: an autobiography / Maya Angelou
- Listen children: a poem / Lucille Clifton ; From Wilma: an autobiography / Wilma Rudolph
- From The story of Stevie Wonder: a biography / James Haskins
- December: a poem / Lucille Clifton.
- Notes:
- Bantam skylark book.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0553151436
- 9780553151435
- OCLC:
- 8491417
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