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All Aunt Hagar's Children (2006) is a collection of short stories by African-American author Edward P. Jones; it was his first book after winning the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for The Known World. The collection of 14 stories centers on African Americans in Washington D.C. during the 20th century.
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales is a 1985 collection of twenty-four folktales retold by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. They encompass animal tales (including tricksters ), fairy tales , supernatural tales , and tales of the enslaved Africans (including slave narratives ).
The book received positive critical reviews. Common Sense Media wrote that the book's "epic narrative" was "compelling, complex, and deeply personal." [2] The New York Times wrote that the book "cries out for a teacher or parent to expand and deepen the experience." [3] The book won a 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Award. [4]
The first printed version of the story was entitled "The Story of Epaminondas and His Auntie", published by Sara Cone Bryant in her 1907 book Stories to Tell to Children. In the book's opening chapter, Bryant highlighted the story as belonging to "a very large, very ancient type of funny story", and when referring to the story's ability to ...
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales is a 1995 collection of nineteen stories by Black women, retold by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. They include animal tales , fairy tales (including a version of Cinderella , "Catskinella"), and three biographical profiles of real Black women.
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, [1] is a children's thriller book, filled with ten tales of supernatural activity occurring throughout times of slavery and civil rights in the south. The authors of the book, Patricia McKissack and Fredrick McKissack, husband and wife, are known for their writings about African American culture.
Short story collections by James Baldwin (1 P) Pages in category "African-American short story collections" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
"Blues Ain't No Mocking Bird" is a short story by Toni Cade Bambara written in 1971. [1] It is told through the point of view of a young black girl in North America. The story is about a family whose privacy is invaded by two white cameramen who are making a film for the county's food stamp program.
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