The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
by Hamilton, Virginia; Dillon, Leo (Illustrator); Dillon, Diane (Illustrator)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375824057
- ISBN 13
- 9780375824050
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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Synopsis
Virginia Hamilton , the first Black to win a Newbery Medal and the first children’s book author to be awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant, won the Coretta Scott King Award for The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales . She died in 2002 at the age of 66. Leo and Diane Dillon , recepients of two Caldecott Medals, have illustrated five books by Virginia Hamilton, including the original black-and-white illustrations in The People Could Fly collection, Many Thousand Gone , and Her Stories . Leo and Diane Dillon live in Brooklyn, NY.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022435
- Title
- The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
- Author
- Hamilton, Virginia; Dillon, Leo (Illustrator); Dillon, Diane (Illustrator)
- Illustrator
- Dillon, Leo; Dillon, Diane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0375824057
- ISBN 13
- 9780375824050
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLKLORE STORIES LEGENDS STORYTELLING LITERATURE LITERARY TRADITION ETHNIC RACIAL RACE AUDIOBOOK
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA) / Illustrated & Picture Books; Fairy Tales-Folklore-Fables-Mythology; Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature / African/Black Americans;
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