Book Detail
Her Stories |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Hamilton, Virginia | Illustrator: Dillon, Leo & Dillon, Diane | ||||||||
| Title: Her Stories | Date: 1995 | ||||||||
| Publisher: The Blue Sky Press | City: New York, NY | ||||||||
| ISBN, paperback: 0-590-47370-0 | ISBN, hardback: | ||||||||
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: | ||||||||
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: | ||||||||
| Picture: Yes | |||||||||
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): legends, tales and myths | |||||||||
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Summary: |
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| The book focuses on stories of females-animal stories, supernatural tales, folktales, and oral histories. It includes an afterword by Virginia Hamilton and an excellent bibliography. | |||||||||
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| The book could be included in a text set on African American women with Having Our Say and Sorrow's Kitchen, with other Virginia Hamilton books: Drylongso, The Bells of Christmas, The People Could Fly, or with similar tales such as Rumpelstiltskin, The Little Mermaid, Native American "trickster" stories, and African folktales. Teachers may want to excerpt individual sections or stories. | |||||||||
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