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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Virginia Hamilton
Illustrated by Leo Dillon
Illustrated by Diane Dillon
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 205
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780679843368
ClassificationsDewey:398.20899607
Audience
General
Illustrations B&W

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House USA Inc
Imprint Random House USA Inc
Publication Date 4 January 1993
Publication Country United States

Description

"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. This book has been selected as a Common Core State Standards text Exemplar (Grade 6-8, Stories) in Appendix B.

Author Biography

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.