Little man, little man : a story of childhood / James Baldwin ; with illustrations by Yoran Cazac ; edited by Nicholas Boggs and Jennifer DeVere Brody ; foreword by Tejan Karefa-Smart ; afterword by Aisha Karefa-Smart.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xxi, 98 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781478000044
- 147800004X
- Neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York
- African American children -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction
- African American boys -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- City and town life -- Juvenile fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (State) -- Juvenile fiction
| 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 Fiction | Baldwin James | Available | 33111009262797 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book, Little Man, Little Man celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood.
Now available for the first time in forty years, this new edition of Little Man, Little Man --which retains the charming original illustrations by French artist Yoran Cazac--includes a foreword by Baldwin's nephew Tejan "TJ" Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his niece Aisha Karefa-Smart, with an introduction by two Baldwin scholars. In it we not only see life in 1970s Harlem from a black child's perspective, but we also gain a fuller appreciation of the genius of one of America's greatest writers.
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Little man, Little man: we the children / Tejan Karefa-Smart -- Introduction / Nicholas Boggs and Jennifer DeVere Brody -- Little man, little man -- Afterword / Aisha Karefa-Smart.
Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. This new edition includes a foreword by Baldwin's nephew Tejan "TJ" Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his niece Aisha Karefa-Smart, with an introduction by two Baldwin scholars. In it we not only see life in 1970s Harlem from a black child's perspective, but we also gain a fuller appreciation of the genius of one of America's greatest writers.