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Beautiful blackbird / Ashley Bryan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0689847319
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PZ8.1.B838 Bg 2003
Online resources: Summary: 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."
List(s) this item appears in: Coretta Scott King Book Award
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Juvenile Collection Juvenile Collection Albright College Library Juvenile Fiction and Non-Fiction Children's collection J 398.2 B915b (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 31856002130126
Total holds: 0

"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.

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."

Coretta Scott King illustrator award winner.

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