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Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)

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A selection of twenty-five African-American folktales makes a speciality of strong female characters and includes “Little Girl and Bruh Rabby,” “Catskinella,” and “Annie Christmas.” By the creator of The People Could Fly.
Virginia Hamilton, who up to now won a Newbery Medal and a MacArthur Foundation grant, gives us 17 pugnacious and heroic female characters in a selection of tales that demonstrates the breadth of African-American cultural tradition. The characters in Her Stories, which won the 1996 Coretta Scott King Award, are strong, competent, and now and again bigger than life, like the “coal black and tree tall” Annie Christmas. Drawn from quite a lot of sources, the tales in Her Stories have been crafted to blend together smoothly at the same time as remaining true to their original tone. Text and art are laid against a buff background in a stylish, oversize format, with a heavy binding built to rise up to the repeated use that is sure to return.

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