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With vibrant cut-paper collages, a Coretta Scott King Award-winner presents an adaptation of a folktale from Zimbabwe that celebrates the importance of appreciating one's own inner beauty. Full color.

Artist Ashley Bryan's experience as a Black soldier in the segregated army of WWII"--

Four folktales from different parts of Africa that highlight the power of common sense, including the title story, in which a clever mongoose outwits a foolish lion while rescuing six ostrich chicks.

Take a front row seat for Ashley Bryan's performance of Beautiful Blackbird and other folktales!

Award-winning author, artist and performer Ashley Bryan will leave you breathless with his poems and animated retelling of four African Folktales.

From a celebrated illustrator comes a trickster tale from the French Antilles. A fearless little boy ignores Grandma's warning about nighttime monsters until he runs away and meets the two-headed giant's three-headed brother. Full color.

Who built the stable where Jesus lay? A multiple Coretta Scott King AwardDwinner has a very good idea in this beautiful and moving new layer to the nativity story. Full color.

With a kaleidoscope of color and cut paper, a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner celebrates three favorite spirituals: "This Little Light of Mine, " "Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In, " and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands." Full color.

Beloved Coretta Scott King Award-winning storyteller and creator Ashley Bryan reveals the vibrant spirit of found objects in this magnificent treasury of poetry and puppets.Little Cranberry Island. It's a small island, with fewer than a hundred inhabitants, but it's got more than its share of treasures—including the magnificent Ashley Bryan himself, a world-renowned storyteller and author of such classics as All Night, All Day and Beautiful Bl...

Newbery Honor Book Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, Ashley Bryan offers a moving and powerful picture book that contrasts the monetary value of a person with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away.Imagine being looked up and down and being valued as less than chair. Less than an ox. Le...

I'm Going to Sing is a collection of spirituals songs brought to life from award winning children's book author and illustrator Ashley Bryan. Lovingly updated and with a foreword from Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith, recipient of the 2011 Coretta Scott King-VirginiaHamilton Practitioner Award for lifetime achievement, this edition includes favorites songs accompanied by linocut illustrations that capture the strength and spirit of the music.

Walk Together Children is a collection of spirituals songs brought to life from award winning children's book author and illustrator Ashley Bryan. Lovingly updated and with a foreword from Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith, recipient of the 2011 Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Award for lifetime achievement, this edition includes such favorites as "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, " "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, " and "When the Sai...

This book is a dream caught on paper with the sense of magic and wonder and unfettered imagination of a child. As sleep starts the journey into the blue, marvelous threads unravel dreamy images out of the blue revealing animals, far-off places, a circus, games, toys, wind, rain, a touch of this and a touch of that, words and wordplay. A poem accompanies the whimsical illustrations, perfectly capturing the sense of awe and excitement of childho...

Raise your voice with this musical illustrated songbook of traditional African American spirituals including instructions for piano accompaniment and guitar chords.Many songs performed at churches, schools, camps, or clubs are African American spirituals. This lively and inspirational picture book shines a light on twenty of the thousand songs that have been collected since the Civil War, including "All Night, All Day, " "This Little Light of ...

From Coretta Scott King Award-winning creator Ashley Bryan comes a luminously illustrated primer on celebrated African American poets, from A to Z."And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely—I'll make me a world." —James Weldon Johnson This collection brings together inspiring excerpts of poems by celebrated African American poets and is sure to delight readers of all ages.

From Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan comes a vibrant picture book retelling of a West African myth.A long time ago—a very long time ago—Thunder and Lightning didn't live in the sky. Uh-uh! They lived right in a village on the west coast of Alkebulan, called Africa today. Thunder was a mother sheep and impetuous Lightning was her son. How did they come to leave their home on Earth behind?

Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan presents five African folktales in this delightful, boldly illustrated picture book.A trickster spider has his careful plan backfire, a frog and elephant team up to woo pretty girls, a calm tortoise outwits an underhanded hare, and more in these stories from Ghana, Angola, and South Africa. This beautiful picture book includes "Ananse the Spider in Search of a Fool, " "Frog and His Two Wives, " "Ele...

Celebrate black identity and heritage in this funny, rhyming picture book from Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan.A young village boy living in the Caribbean has one problem—his name is so long that not one person can remember it. But still his granny insists he learn and use it. The boy thinks he has the longest name in the world, but could Granny's be even longer?

From Coretta Scott King Award-winning creator Ashley Bryan comes a rhythmic picture book of five Nigerian folktales.From the silly tale of a monkey's speech being sprinkled with shoo bee do's and hay baa ba ree bop's to the more poignant story of two young friends—a snake and a frog—being warned away from each other by their prejudiced mothers, these five tales and their striking woodcut illustrations are sure to enchant young readers.

When sent to retrieve their master's magic ring from Spider Ananse, Okra the cat and Okraman the dog prove their true worth in this beautifully illustrated tale from acclaimed illustrator Ashley Bryan.In this story within a story, when the jealous Spider Ananse steals a ring from Aku, Aku's dog and cat join him on many adventures to retrieve it. While in the end they are successful, Okra, the cat, proves to have been the more capable companion...