"The well-known author retells 24 black American folk tales insure storytelling voice: animal tales, supernatural tales, fancifuland cautionary tales, and slave tales of freedom. All arebeautifully readable. With the added attraction of 40 wonderfullyexpressive paintings by the Dillons, this collection should besnapped up."--(starred) "School Library Journal."
【作者简介】
* Virginia Hamilton, storyteller, lecturer, and biographer,was born and raised in Yellow Springs, OH, which is said to be astation on the Underground Railroad. Her grandfather settled in thevillage after escaping slavery in Virginia.
* She was educated at Antioch College and Ohio State Universityand did further study in literature and the novel at the New Schoolfor Social Research.
* Virginia was the first African American woman to win theNewbery Award,for M.C. Higgins the Great. Since then, she has wonthree Newbery Honors and three Coretta Scott King Awards.
* In 1992, Virginia was awarded the Hans Christian AndersenMedal, which is presented every two years by the InternationalBoard on Books for Young People, in recognition of her entire bodyof work.
* Virginia writes first for the pleasure of using words andlanguage to evoke characters and their world, and in historicalaccounts such as Anthony Burns, the lives of real people. Secondly,Hamilton writes to entertain, to inspire in people the desire toread on and on good books made especially for them.
【目录】
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
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