The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
by Virginia Hamilton
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0394869257
- ISBN 13
- 9780394869254
- Seller
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Ridgeley, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and square but is faded along the outer edges with a very small ding on the front top corner of the binding. Illustrated tgroughout. DJ has chips out of the front, back, and spine. Back DJ has been taped. From the front DJ flap "In this treasury we hear the voice of Newbery Medal winner Virginia Hamilton - a voice that echoes the slaves and fugitives from her own American black ancestry as she tells the stories that kept their culturue alive."
Synopsis
Virginia Hamilton, storyteller, lecturer, and biographer, was born and raised in Yellow Springs, OH, which is said to be a station on the Underground Railroad. Her grandfather settled in the village after escaping slavery in Virginia. She was educated at Antioch College and Ohio State University and did further study in literature and the novel at the New School for Social Research. Virginia was the first African American woman to win the Newbery Award, for M.C. Higgins the Great. Since then, she has won three Newbery Honors and three Coretta Scott King Awards. In 1992, Virginia was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, which is presented every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People, in recognition of her entire body of work. Virginia writes first for the pleasure of using words and language to evoke characters and their world, and in historical accounts such as Anthony Burns, the lives of real people. Secondly, Hamilton writes to entertain, to inspire in people the desire to read on and on good books made especially for them. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Grampy's Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ppRSH203973
- Title
- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
- Author
- Virginia Hamilton
- Format/Binding
- Light blue hard cover with gilt lettering on the spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394869257
- ISBN 13
- 9780394869254
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009-01-13
- Pages
- 173
- Keywords
- African American Folklore
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