Product Details
Atheneum, January 2001
Trade Paperback, 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0689840454
ISBN-13: 9780689840456
Ages: 4 - 8
Grades: P - 3
Awards and Nominations
- CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book
- Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book
Description
"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 Scott King Award-winner Ashley Bryan's collection of inspiring excerpts of poems by celebrated African American poets. Beautifully illustrated with his own tempera and gouache paintings, Ashley Bryan's unique alphabet book will delight readers of any age.
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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
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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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