Irene Smalls-Hector, Author, Arene Smalls, Author, Melodye Rosales, Author Little Brown and Company $15.45 (1p) ISBN 978-0-316-79878-5
The Johnkankus festival, according to the author's note here, was a kaleidoscope of color and song danced along the dirt roads of North Carolina (and other places in the South) as a special Christmas celebration for hundreds of slaves. Rosales ('Twas
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Melodye Rosales, Author, Melodye Rosales, Illustrator Scholastic $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-73944-3
Rosales's (On the Day I Was Born) rendition of the well-loved Clement C. Moore poem casts a ""Santy Claus... with skin like molasses"" who directs his reindeer with ""Giddy-up y'all!"" and lands on the roof of an African American family. Her...
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Melodye Rosales, Author, Melodye Rosales, Illustrator Cartwheel Books $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-38358-5
Rosales's (A Strawbeater's Thanksgiving) update of a nursery staple features an adventurous African-American girl and her doll. Leola wanders away from her Grandmama and into the Pine Hollow Woods, where she encounters wily Ol' Mister Weasel....
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