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When birds could talk & bats could sing : the adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and their friends
Title
When birds could talk & bats could sing : the adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and their friends / told by Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Barry Moser.
ISBN
0590473727
9780590473729
0590473735
9780590473736
Published
New York : Blue Sky Press, ©1996.
Physical Description
63 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 3508: From the library of Leonard S. Marcus.
BEIN 2018 3681: Dust jacket. From the library of Leonard S. Marcus.
BEIN 2018 4279: Dust jacket. From the library of Leonard S. Marcus.
Notes
Number line: "12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 6 7 8 9/9 0 1/0" on title page verso indicates 1st printing, 1996.
American Library Association Notable Children's Book 1997
Summary
A collection of stories, featuring sparrows, jays, buzzards, and bats, based on those African American tales originally written down by Martha Young on her father's plantation in Alabama after the Civil War.
Variant and related titles
When birds could talk and bats could sing
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 13, 2020
Audience
Elementary Grade.
620 Lexile.
Contents
How Bruh Sparrow and Sis Wren lost out
Still and ugly Bat
Blue Jay and Swallow take the heat
Bruh Buzzard and Fair Maid
Hummingbird and Little Breeze
When Miss Bat could sing
Cardinal and Bruh Deer
Little Brown Wren.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Folklore.
Juvenile literature.
Also listed under
Leonard S. Marcus Collection of Children's Literature (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
United States New York (State) New York.
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