The People Could Fly

The People Could Fly
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1993-01-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0679843361


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"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. This book has been selected as a Common Core State Standards text Exemplar (Grade 6-8, Stories) in Appendix B.

People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1985
Genre:
ISBN:


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Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.

The People Could Fly

The People Could Fly
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1985
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780590482110


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Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope--Résumé de l'éditeur.

The People Could Fly

The People Could Fly
Author: Ann Malaspina
Publisher: Child's World
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9781623236175


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African American slaves in the old South dream of escape from their hardships by flying away.

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0553507818


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“THE PEOPLE COULD FLY,” the title story in Virginia Hamilton’s prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom. And it is a moving tale of those who did not have the opportunity to “fly” away, who remained slaves with only their imaginations to set them free as they told and retold this tale. Leo and Diane Dillon have created powerful new illustrations in full color for every page of this picture book presentation of Virginia Hamilton’s most beloved tale. The author’s original historical note as well as her previously unpublished notes are included. Awards for The People Could Fly collection: A Coretta Scott King Award A Booklist Children’s Editors’ Choice A School Library Journal Best Books of the Year A Horn Book Fanfare An ALA Notable Book An NCTE Teachers’ Choice A New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of the Year

The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books)

The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books)
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 1437
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0871407566


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Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset’s “Negro Folk Tales from the South” (1927), Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (1935), and Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. Arguing for the value of these deceptively simple stories as part of a sophisticated, complex, and heterogeneous cultural heritage, Gates and Tatar show how these remarkable stories deserve a place alongside the classic works of African American literature, and American literature more broadly. Opening with two introductory essays and twenty seminal African tales as historical background, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics, but also stories like “The Talking Skull” and “Witches Who Ride,” as well as out-of-print tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman. Beginning with the figure of Anansi, the African trickster, master of improvisation—a spider who plots and weaves in scandalous ways—The Annotated African American Folktales then goes on to draw Caribbean and Creole tales into the orbit of the folkloric canon. It retrieves stories not seen since the Harlem Renaissance and brings back archival tales of “Negro folklore” that Booker T. Washington proclaimed had emanated from a “grapevine” that existed even before the American Revolution, stories brought over by slaves who had survived the Middle Passage. Furthermore, Gates and Tatar’s volume not only defines a new canon but reveals how these folktales were hijacked and misappropriated in previous incarnations, egregiously by Joel Chandler Harris, a Southern newspaperman, as well as by Walt Disney, who cannibalized and capitalized on Harris’s volumes by creating cartoon characters drawn from this African American lore. Presenting these tales with illuminating annotations and hundreds of revelatory illustrations, The Annotated African American Folktales reminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive. The Annotated African American Folktales includes: Introductory essays, nearly 150 African American stories, and 20 seminal African tales as historical background The familiar Brer Rabbit classics, as well as news-making vernacular tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman An entire section of Caribbean and Latin American folktales that finally become incorporated into the canon Approximately 200 full-color, museum-quality images

Black Folktales

Black Folktales
Author: Julius Lester
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1970
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:


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Twelve tales of African and Afro-American origin include "How God Made the Butterflies," "The Girl With the Large Eyes," "Stagolee," and "People Who Could Fly."

Her Stories

Her Stories
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780590473705


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Nineteen stories focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women.

Virginia Hamilton

Virginia Hamilton
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Blue Sky Press (AZ)
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780439271936


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Twenty-six works by the distinguished children's book author illuminate the creative energy behind her artistry while speaking to a new generation of readers, introducing them to her literary vision and stunning body of writing which include Newbery Medal and National Book Award winners.

The Girl who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales

The Girl who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales
Author:
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1402732635


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A collection of Native American stories arranged geographically.