The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, (Paperback)

from brandonachey

After reading the author's note in the back of this book, I find this to be a truly fascinating story that is extremely integrated into the folklore of African-American culture. The book tells the folk lore tale of how African slaves were able to fly away from slavery using the ancient and powerf...

from abrial2433

This book's artful and beautiful illustrations highlight the tellng of a mythic story that retells the enslavement and emancipation of African-Americans. The story is moving and the illustrations model classical religious paintings with African-Americans as the focus and subject. Truly wonderful....

from AmandaLK

This is an awesome folktale based on African-American legend. It's about a tribe in Africa that could fly that got sold into slavery and lost their wings, but the old sorcerer gave them their wings back. The illustrations are lovely and the implications of the story would be really interesting to...

from kjarthur

This picture book version is in tribute to Virginia Hamilton. All the illustrations are so vivid, descriptive and where needed, historically accurate. When the people fly, they are so beautiful, graceful and fluid despite the struggle they have just encountered. Teach that despite your circumstan...

from Sassy_Seshat

The People Could Fly is a popular African American folktale in which an invisible narrator recalls a time when enslaved Africans flew away to freedom as a means of escape. This retelling by Virginia Hamilton is beautifully illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.