The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
The Picbk
$42.39
- Hardcover
32 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2004
Summary
This is a 32-page picture book version of the late Virginia Hamilton’s title story from her award-winning collection of American Black folktales, The People Could Fly. The Dillons, who illustrated the original collection, have created all-new, glorious illustrations in full color for every page of this picture book.
A tale about slaves seeking freedom, it is considered her most haunting and moving story and second only to her Newbery book in sales. Like many books illustrated…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375824050 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375824057 |
| Author: | Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon, PH.D. |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Children's Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 476g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 240mm x 313mm |
| Audience Age: | 4-8 |
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Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton, the first Black author to win a Newbery Medal and the first children’s book author to be awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant, won the Coretta Scott King Award for The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales. She died in 2002 at the age of 66.
Leo and Diane Dillon, recipients of two Caldecott Medals, have illustrated five books by Virginia Hamilton, including the original black-and-white illustrations in The People Could Fly collection, Many Thousand Gone, and Her Stories. Leo and Diane Dillon live in Brooklyn, NY.
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