Beautiful blackbird / Ashley Bryan.
2003
PZ8.1.B838 Bg 2003 (Mapit)
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Title
Beautiful blackbird / Ashley Bryan.
Author
Bryan, Ashley.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0689847319
Publication Details
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2003.
Language
English
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Call Number
PZ8.1.B838 Bg 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification
398.2 /096894/04528 E
Summary
In a story of the Ila people, the colorful birds of Africa ask Blackbird, whom they think is the most beautiful of birds, to decorate them with some of his "blackening brew."
Note
"Adapted from a tale from 'The Ila-speaking people from Northern Rhodesia' (now known as Zambia) by Edwin W. Smith and Andrew M. Dale. University Books: New Hyde Park, New York, 1968. vol. 2, pp. 350-51"--Colophon.
Awards
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, 2004.
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