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Podcast: Story Time with Avant-garde Books, LLC
Episode: (The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales) He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit told by Virginia Hamilton and Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
Description: "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 beautifully readable. With the added attraction of 40 wonderfully expressive paintings by the Dillons, this collection should be snapped up."--(starred) School Library Journal. This book has been selected as a Common Core State Standards text Exemplar (Grade 6-8, Stories) in Appendix B.