One-Hundred-and-One African-American Read-Aloud Stories
Gr 3-8This book includes folktales; excerpts from longer novels, biographies, and history books; and songs (without musical notation), poetry, and chants. Most libraries will have many of the titles from which the selections are excerpted: Andrea Davis Pinkneys Alvin Ailey (Hyperion, 1993), Walter Dean Myerss Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff (Puffin, 1988), Harriet Jacobss Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Oxford Univ., 1988). The folktales are very brief and some do not specify the region or people from which they originated. Many are taken from Frances Carpenters African Wonder Tales (Doubleday, 1963; o.p.); others are not credited to any reteller. Joel Chandler Harriss retellings are included in dialect. Small black-and-white graphics appear at the start of each selection. Stick with the original books as well as the wonderful newer biographies, histories, novels, folktale collections, and picture-book versions of African and African-American folktales available.Sally Bates Goodroe, Harris County Public Library, Houston, TXCopyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.