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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.

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...

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.

The Dancing Granny describes Spider Ananse's ploy to get Granny started dancing so he can raid her garden--but his own trick does him in.Spider Ananse takes advantage of Granny Anika's love of dancing and sets her to dancing again and again while he steals food from her luxuriant garden.

The Cat's Purr is Ashely Bryan's story of an unlikely friendship and the fun that ensues.Cat and Rat are friends, but when Rat tricks Cat and plays the cat drum, which only cats may play, Cat ends up swallowing the drum, and that is how he got his purr.

This collection of twenty-six proverbs, some serious and some humorous, have been culled from a variety of African tribes. Full color.

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.

Full of clever, magic, and foolish creatures, this lavish new collection brings together 14 previously published African folktales by Ashley Bryan. Each story is told in a rich, lyrical voice.Three-color and b&w, illustrations.