Synopsis
About Virginia Hamilton
See more books from this AuthorWhen a mother and her baby are brutally whipped in the cotton fields, an old slave resurrects his magic and helps her and others fly away, free as birds, leaving the non-magical slaves behind to tell the tale.
Nov 09 2004 | Read Full Review of The People Could Fly: The Pic..."They say the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic.
May 20 2010 | Read Full Review of The People Could Fly: The Pic...But then you hear the magic words of old Toby -- no, you feel the magic words of old Toby: ''Kum .
Nov 14 2004 | Read Full Review of The People Could Fly: The Pic...Toby helps others take flight as well (a stunning image shows seemingly hundreds linking hands and taking to the skies)—and eventually does so himself, sadly leaving some of the captives "who could not fly" behind to "wait for a chance to run."
Nov 22 2004 | Read Full Review of The People Could Fly: The Pic...This widely lauded anthology boasts stunning black-and-white artwork and stirringly told stories with such evocative titles as ``The Beautiful Girl of the Moon Tower'' and ``Wiley, His Mama, and the Hairy Man.'' All ages.
| Read Full Review of The People Could Fly: The Pic...Hamilton's collection of two dozen African folk tales, accompanied by the Dillons' black-and-white illustrations, was published to much acclaim in 1985.
| Read Full Review of The People Could Fly: The Pic...Animal tales based on stories brought over from Africa by the slaves' forbears communicate through the antics of their clever underdog heroes the slaves' desires for freedom and triumph over their masters, while other fanciful stories convey hope for the future.
Jan 01 1985 | Read Full Review of The People Could Fly: The Pic...An aggregated and normalized score based on 11 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes