African Americans -- Folklore
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African Americans -- Folklore
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- The people could fly, the picture book, Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
- The favorite Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris ; illustrated by A. B. Frost ; selected, arranged, & edited by George Van Santvoord and Archibald C. Coolidge
- John Henry, adapted by Stephen Krensky ; illustrations by Mark Oldroyd
- The people could fly, American Black folktales, told by Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
- John Henry, an American legend, story and pictures by Ezra Jack Keats
- The headless haunt and other African-American ghost stories, collected and retold by James Haskins ; illustrated by Ben Otero
- Wiley and the Hairy man, by Molly Garrett Bang
- Further tales of Uncle Remus, the misadventures of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, the Doodang, and all the other creatures, told by Julius Lester ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
- Stagolee shot Billy, Cecil Brown
- The people could fly, : an African-American folktale, retold by Ann Malaspina ; illustrated by Sole Otero
- The hired hand, an African-American folktale, retold by Robert D. San Souci ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney
- Talk that talk, an anthology of African-American storytelling, edited by Linda Goss & Marian E. Barnes
- Shuckin' and jivin', folklore from contemporary Black Americans, Daryl Cumber Dance
- Black folktales, Julius Lester ; illustrated by Tom Feelings ; with an introduction by the author
- Tops & bottoms, adapted and illustrated by Janet Stevens
- The cool ride in the sky, told by Diane Wolkstein ; Paul Galdone drew the pictures
- The signifying monkey, a theory of Afro-American literary criticism, Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- John Henry, by Julius Lester
- Black culture and black consciousness, Afro-American folk thought from slavery to freedom, Lawrence W. Levine
- Hello, house!, by Linda Hayward ; illustrated by Lynn Munsinger
- The tales of Uncle Remus, the adventures of Brer Rabbit, as told by Julius Lester ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
- The days when the animals talked, Black American folktales and how they came to be, William J. Faulkner ; ill. by Troy Howell
- From my people, 400 years of African American folklore, edited by Daryl Cumber Dance
- American Negro folklore, [compiled] by J. Mason Brewer ; illus. by Richard Lowe
- The green pastures, a fable suggested by Roark Bradford's southern sketches, "Ol' Man Adam an' his chillun", by Marc Connelly
- Greatest American tall tales & legends, a production of Schlessinger Media ; produced and directed by Top Dog Media ; executive producer/director, Ray Messecar ; written by Ray Messecar, Carol Ann Messecar
- The green pastures, Turner Entertainment Co. ; directed by Marc Connelly and William Keighley
- Tops and bottoms, adapted and illustrated by Janet Stevens
- The knee-high man, and other tales, by Julius Lester , pictures by Ralph Pinto
- Black folktales, Julius Lester ; Illustrated by Tom Feelings
- Every tongue got to confess, Negro folk-tales from the Gulf states, Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by John Edgar Wideman ; edited and with an introduction by Carla Kaplan
- Candle-lighting time in Bodidalee, Illustrated by Wallace Tripp. With a foreword by Alfred V. Frankenstein
- The people could fly, told byVirginia Hamilton
- Old Mister Rabbit, an African American folk song, illustrated by Robert Bender
- Raw head, bloody bones, African-American tales of the supernatural, selected by Mary E. Lyons
- The adventures of Brer Rabbit and friends, from the stories collected by Joel Chandler Harris, retold by Karima Amin ; illustrated by Eric Copeland
- The book of Negro folklore, edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps
- African American folk healing, Stephanie Y. Mitchem
- Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Witcover
- Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings, by Joel Chandler Harris
- Positively black, [by] Roger D. Abrahams
- Jump again!, more adventures of Brer Rabbit, by Joel Chandler Harris ; adapted by Van Dyke Parks ; illustrated by Barry Moser
- The story tree, tales to read aloud, retold by Hugh Lupton ; illustrated by Sophie Fatus
- Brer Rabbit, stories from Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris, adapted by Margaret Wise Brown, with the A. B. ; Frost pictures redrawn for reproduction by Victor Dowling
- Myths, legends, and folktales of America, an anthology, David Leeming and Jake Page
- The tales of Uncle Remus, the adventures of Brer Rabbit, as told by Julius Lester
- John Henry, steel-drivin' man, ill. by Gordon Laite
- The classic tales of Brer Rabbit, [retold by David Borgenicht] ; illustrated by Don Daily ; from stories collected by Joel Chandler Harris
- Bo Rabbit smart for true, folktales from the Gullah, retold by Priscilla Jaquith ; drawings by Ed Young
- Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings, by Joel Chandler Harris ; edited with an introduction by Robert Hemenway
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