Beautiful blackbird / Ashley Bryan.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0689847319
- 9780689847318
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2004.
- Coretta Scott King Award, illustrator, 2004.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 398.2096 B915 | Available | 33111010575385 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A tale from the Ila-speaking people of Zambia gets new life in this picture book adaptation from Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan about appreciating one's heritage and discovering the beauty within.
Black is beautiful, uh-huh!
Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in the forest. The other birds, who were colored red, yellow, blue, and green, were so envious that they begged Blackbird to paint their feathers with a touch of black so they could be beautiful too. Although Black-bird warns them that true beauty comes from within, the other birds persist and soon each is given a ring of black around their neck or a dot of black on their wings--markings that detail birds to this very day.
"Adapted from a tale from 'The Ila-speaking people from Northern Rhodesia' (now known as Zambia) by Edwin W. Smith and Andrew M. Dale. University Books: New Hyde Park, New York, 1968. vol. 2, pp. 350-51"--Colophon.
"Book design by Abelardo Martinez. The text of this book is set in Matrix. The illustrations are rendered in paper collage"--Colophon.
Color illustrated lining papers.
In a story of the Ila people, the colorful birds of Africa ask Blackbird, whom they think is the most beautiful of birds, to decorate them with some of his "blackening brew."
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2004.
Coretta Scott King Award, illustrator, 2004.