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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (1985)

by Virginia Hamilton

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You don't have to be Black or American to enjoy this book. The stories are ideal to read to your kiddy at bedtime. ( )
  Petra.Xs | Apr 2, 2013 |
This book was truly interesting. I had no idea that American Blacks had so many different kinds of books. I loved all of the stories and all of the pictures that went along with them. I would truly recomend this book to people that are trying to learn about American Black stories. I would defiantly read this book to my students. ( )
  gjchauvin504 | Oct 29, 2012 |
This book was about African American's desire for freedom, it was told as a folktale to produce hope. I would use this in my classroom to demonstrate what folktales are and how they come from many different heritages. It could be used in a history lesson. A good age group for this book would be 2nd or 3rd Graders.
  liss2 | Sep 26, 2012 |
A Coretta Scott King Award

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A New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of the Year ( )
  Warnerp | Aug 1, 2010 |
I really enjoyed reading this book. The book contains several folktales concerning African Americans and their history of slavery. We are used to hearing about Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill but this book takes on a different idea of American folklore. In The People Could Fly, one can expect to find characters such as Bruh Rabbit who add magic to the book. This book is intended for readers in the range of 3rd grade and up.
  brittneywest | Feb 26, 2010 |
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They say the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic.
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Humor, magic and mystery underscore the theme of freedom in this collection of stories drawn from the African-American folktale tradition. Renowned for her knowledge of the genre and seamless manner of delivering it, Hamilton comes together with two prize-winning illustrators to contribute yet another hardy volume. It includes gruesome, suspenseful and fanciful accounts of black history, as well as the narratives of "voices from the past," among them, Hamilton's own ancestors. Along with powerfully evocative pictures, the book has a glossary and notes on the origins and different versions of tales. The People Could Fly won the 1986 Coretta Scott King Award.

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Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.

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