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.
By: Hamilton, Virginia.
Contributor(s): Moser, Barry [ill.].
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BookPublisher: New York : Blue Sky Press, c1996Description: 63 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.ISBN: 0590473727 :.Other title: When birds could talk and bats could sing.Subject(s): Afro-Americans -- Folklore | Tales -- Southern States | Afro-Americans -- Folklore | Folklore -- Southern States | Birds -- Folklore | African Americans -- Folklore | Folklore -- Southern States | Birds -- FolkloreDDC classification: 398.24/528/08996073 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.
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A collection of stories, featuring sparrows, jays, buzzards, and bats, based on African-American tales originally written down by Martha Young on her father's plantation in Alabama after the Civil War.
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