The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales - Softcover

Hamilton, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679843361 ISBN 13: 9780679843368

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1993

Synopsis

"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."

About this title

About the Author:

Virginia Hamilton, storyteller, lecturer, and biographer, was born and raised in Yellow Springs, OH, which is said to be a station on the Underground Railroad. Her grandfather settled in the village after escaping slavery in Virginia. She was educated at Antioch College and Ohio State University and did further study in literature and the novel at the New School for Social Research. Virginia was the first African American woman to win the Newbery Award, for M.C. Higgins the Great. Since then, she has won three Newbery Honors and three Coretta Scott King Awards. In 1992, Virginia was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, which is presented every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People, in recognition of her entire body of work. Virginia writes first for the pleasure of using words and language to evoke characters and their world, and in historical accounts such as Anthony Burns, the lives of real people. Secondly, Hamilton writes to entertain, to inspire in people the desire to read on and on good books made especially for them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679843361
• ISBN 13: 9780679843368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Illustrator: Dillon Leo, Dillon Diane