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Hamilton, Virginia.

When birds could talk & bats could sing : the adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and their friends / told by Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Barry Moser. - New York : Blue Sky Press, 1996. - 63 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.

A collection of stories, featuring sparrows, jays, buzzards, and bats, based on those African American tales originally written down by Martha Young on her father's plantation in Alabama after the Civil War.

0590473727

95015307 /AC


Afro-Americans--Folklore.
Tales--Southern States.
Afro-Americans--Folklore.
Folklore--Southern States.
Birds--Folklore.

PZ8.1.H154 / St 1996

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