African-American folktales for young readers : including favorite stories from African and African-American storytellers / collected and edited by Richard Alan Young and Judy Dockrey Young.
Young, Richard, 1946 March 1-; Young, Judy Dockrey, 1949-
1993
PZ8.1 .A252 1993 (Mapit)
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Title African-American folktales for young readers : including favorite stories from African and African-American storytellers / collected and edited by Richard Alan Young and Judy Dockrey Young.
ISBN 0874833094 (pbk.)
0874833086
Imprint Little Rock : August House, c1993.
Language English
Description 176 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number PZ8.1 .A252 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 398.2/08996073
Summary A collection of folktales from the African-American oral tradition, presented as they have been told by professional black storytellers from Rhode Island to Oklahoma.
Added Author Young, Richard, 1946 March 1-
Young, Judy Dockrey, 1949-
Series American storytelling
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Languages of Africa
Young heroes and heroines
Beautiful brown eyes
The Sizimweh
Wild Man
The girl and the ghost
Wham! Slam! Jenny-Mo-Jam!
Wylie and the Hairy Man
Animal fables
Python and Lizard
Mr. Frog rides Mr. Elephant
Brother Lion and Brother Man
How Br'er Rabbit outsmarted the frogs
Trickster stories
Anansi tries to steal all the wisdom in the world
Why Anansi has a narrow waist
Anansi and Turtle
Fling-a-mile
Anansi and Candlefly
That mule won't work
Clever Mollie
Why Brother Alligator has a rough back
Parables about people
The faithful brother
Meat of the tongue
The gluttonous rich man
Three young men go out to find death
Bigger than life
John Henry
Annie Christmas
Casey Jones and his friends
In the park and in the dark
Jack and the fish
Tillie
Johnny and the liver
My friend Bennie
Brother Rabbit today
The cabbage inspector
Brother Possum and Brother Snake.

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