The People Could Fly
Subtitle: American Black Folktales
Contributors: Leo Dillon (Illustrator); Diane Phd Dillon (Illustrator)
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: January 4, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780679843368
Subjects: Folklore; Juvenile Fiction; Fairy Tales & Folklore - Black American; Children's 4-8 - Literature / Classics; Tales; Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction; Historical - United States - General; Children: Grades 4-6; Folklore, Afro-American; Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country/Ethnic-General; People & Places - United States - African-American; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / General; Afro-Americans; United States
First sentence: Say that he Lion would get up each and every mornin.
Description: 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.