本书荣获
Coretta Scott King Award Books-Author Award
Coretta Scott King Honor Books- Illustrator Honor
Award
This widely lauded anthology boasts stunning
black-and-white artwork and stirringly told stories with such
evocative titles as "The Beautiful Girl of the Moon Tower" and
"Wiley, His Mama, and the Hairy Man." All ages.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
內容簡介:
"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."
關於作者:
* 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.
目錄:
Introduction
HE LION,BRUH BEAR,AND BRUH RABBIT
And Other Animal Tales
He Lion,Bruh Bear,and Bruh Rabbit
Doc Rabbit,Bruh Fox,and Tar Baby
Tappin,the Land Turtle
Bruh Alligator and Bruh Deer
Bruh Lizard and Bruh Rabbit
Bruh Alligator Meets Trouble
Wolf and Birds and the Fish.Horse
THE BEAUTIFUL GI RL oF THE MooN TOWER
A nd Other T ales of tbe Real,Extravagant,and Fanciful
The Beautiful Girl of the Moon Tower
A Wolf and Little Daughter
Manuel Had a Riddle
Papa John’S Tall Tale
The Two Johns
Wiley,His Mama,and the Hairy Man
JOHN AND THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER
A nd Other T ales of the Supernatural
John and the Devil’S Daughter
The Peculiar Such Thing
Little Eight John
Jack and the Devil
Better Wait Till Martin Comes
CARRYING THE RUNNING.AWAYS
And Other Slave Tales of Freedom
Carrying the Running-Aways
How Nehemiah Got Free
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