LEO and DIANE DILLON, recepients of two Caldecott Medals, have illustrated five books by Virginia Hamilton, including the original black-and-white illustrations in The People Could Fly collection, Many Thousand Gone, and Her Stories. Perry Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction Richard B Harrison - Juvenile Non. She won every major award in youth literature. The people could fly: the picture book Cary Regional - Childrens Non-Fiction Eva H. Virginia described her work as Liberation Literature. The People Could Fly: The Picture Book Virginia Hamilton’s Coretta Scott King Honor book is the breathtaking fantasy tale of slaves who possessed ancient magic that enabled them to fly away to freedom. Woven into her books is a deep concern with memory, tradition, and generational legacy, especially as they helped define the lives of African Americans. In her lifetime, Virginia wrote and published 41 books in multiple genres that spanned picture books and folktales, mysteries and science fiction, realistic novels and biography. Awards for The People Could Fly collection: A Coretta Scott King Award A Booklist Children's Editors' Choice A School Library Journal Best Books of the Year A Horn Book Fanfare An ALA Notable Book An NCTE Teachers' Choice A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of the YearĪbout the Author VIRGINIA HAMILTON, the first black person to win a Newbery Medal and the first children's book author to be awarded a MacArthur genius grant, won the Coretta Scott King Award for The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales. Leo and Diane Dillon's powerful illustrations accompany Hamilton's voice as it sings out from the pages with the soaring cadences that echo the story tellers of her childhood as the granddaughter of a fugitive slave. And it is a moving tale of those who did not have the opportunity to 'fly' away, who remained slaves with only their imaginations to set them free as they told and retold this tale. Knopf in 2004'-Title page verso.īook Synopsis Virginia Hamilton's Coretta Scott King Honor book is the breathtaking fantasy tale of slaves who possessed ancient magic that enabled them to fly away to freedom. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, New York, in 1985, and subsequently published in different form by Alfred A. About the Book 'Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A.

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