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Atheneum Books for Young Readers, December 2003
Trade Paperback, 48 pages
ISBN-10: 0689867867
ISBN-13: 9780689867866
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Awards and Nominations
- Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book
Description
Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Bryan has selected twenty best-known and best-loved African-American spirituals, including the title song, "All Night, All Day," and such others as "This Little Light of Mine," "O When the Saints Go Marching In," and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands."
Glorious full-color pictures, piano accompaniment, and guitar chords help capture the spirit and essence of these timeless songs that can be enjoyed by people of every age and every level of musical skill.
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School Library Journal
The songs leap off the page, demanding to be played and sung.
Young Reader
A remarkable achievement and a lovely treasure.
Kirkus Reviews
starred review
A truly beautiful book, worthy of the wonderful music it showcases.
Ashley Bryan's Books
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Beautiful BlackbirdBlack is beautiful, uh-huh! Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in the forest. The other birds, who were colored red, yellow, blue,...Read More -
All Things Bright and BeautifulAll Things Bright and Beautiful: Ashley Bryan turns a beautiful hymn into a breathtaking one.Read More
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Ashley BryanAward-winning author and illustrator Ashley Bryan offers an inspiring, extraordinary story about living a never-say-you-can't life.Read More
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Let it ShineThis little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. With a kaleidoscope of color and...Read More
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Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry"And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely -- I'll make me a world." -- James Weldon Johnson Thus begins Coretta...Read More
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The Night Has EarsAshley Bryan says, "My mother had a proverb for any situation, attitude, or event." Many of us have had the same experience. But have you ever heard,...Read More
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Ashley Bryan's African Tales, Uh-HuhCome gather round, young and old, and hear these stories from Africa, retold and illustrated by the incomparable Ashley Bryan. The fourteen stories in...Read More
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What a Wonderful WorldWhat simpler way could there be to express to children the beauty and the harmony in the world around them than through the lyrics of this song by...Read More
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Beat the Story Drum, Pum-PumHere are five Nigerian folktales, retold in language as rhythmic as the beat of the story-drum, and illustrated with vibrant, evocative woodcuts.Read More
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