Diane Dillon Books
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
“THE PEOPLE COULD FLY,” the title story in Virginia Hamilton’s prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled t...
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The People Could Fly
"The well-known author retells 24 black American folk tales in sure storytelling voice: animal tales, supernatural tales, fanciful and cautionary tales, and slave tales of freedom. All are beautifu...
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Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles - Think of That!
In illustrations and rhyme describes the dancing of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, one of the most famous tap dancers of all time.
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To Every Thing There Is A Season
Presents the selection from Ecclesiastes which relates that everything in life has its own time and season; depicts each verse with a different style of art from around the world.
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Jazz On A Saturday Night
Presents that selection from Ecclesiastes which relates that everything in life has its own time and season.
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Many Thousand Gone
By Virginia Hamilton, Diane Dillon, Virginia Hamilton Illustrated By Leo
Unavailable for several years, Virginia Hamilton’s award-winning companion to The People Could Fly traces the history of slavery in America in the voices and stories of those who lived it. Le...
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Song of the boat
A small African boy helps his father locate the right tree to make a new canoe to replace the one broken by an alligator.
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