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Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Bryan offers an inspiring, extraordinary story about living a never-say-you-can’t life.

This 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 cut paper, Hans Christian...

Award-winning author and illustrator Ashley Bryan has selected twenty best-known and best-loved African-American spirituals, including the title song,...

Black 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,...

"And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said:I'm lonely -- I'll make me a world." -- James Weldon JohnsonThus begins Coretta Scott King...

Ashley 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,...

Come gather round, young and old, and hear these stories from Africa, retold and illustrated by the incomparable Ashley Bryan. The fourteen stories in...

What 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...

Here are five Nigerian folktales, retold in language as rhythmic as the beat of the story-drum, and illustrated with vibrant, evocative woodcuts.