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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

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“The well known creator retells 24 black American folk tales in sure storytelling voice: animal tales, supernatural tales, fanciful and cautionary tales, and slave tales of freedom. All are beautifully readable. With the added attraction of 40 wonderfully expressive paintings by the Dillons, this collection must be snapped up.”–(starred) School Library Journal. 

This book has been selected as a Common Core State Standards text Exemplar (Grade 6-8, Stories) in Appendix B.
Humor, magic and mystery underscore the theme of freedom in this number of stories drawn from the African-American folktale tradition. Renowned for her knowledge of the genre and seamless manner of delivering it, Hamilton comes along with two prize-winning illustrators to give a contribution yet every other hardy volume. It includes gruesome, suspenseful and fanciful accounts of black history, in addition to the narratives of “voices from the past,” among them, Hamilton’s own ancestors. Together with powerfully evocative pictures, the book has a glossary and notes at the origins and different versions of tales. The People Could Fly won the 1986 Coretta Scott King Award.

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