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   Nov 9, 2004 · 4.38. 797 ratings186 reviews. “THE PEOPLE COULD FLY,” the title story in Virginia Hamilton’s prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom.

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   Nov 9, 2004 · Hamilton’s The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (1985) won a Coretta Scott King Award, and the Dillons here reissue its heartbreaking title story with gorgeous, all-new, full-color paintings. Legend has it that some people in Africa could fly, but when they were shipped to America as slaves, they shed their black, shiny wings ...

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   About The People Could Fly: The Picture Book. “THE PEOPLE COULD FLY,” the title story in Virginia Hamilton’s prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom.

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   4.8 226 ratings. See all formats and editions. Hardcover. £4.84 5 Used from £1.00 6 New from £4.84 1 Collectible from £72.02. Paperback. £6.99 3 Used from £4.80 6 New from £6.00. Virginia Hamilton's Coretta Scott King Honor book is the breathtaking fantasy tale of slaves who possessed ancient magic that enabled them to fly away to freedom.

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   • Author: Virginia Hamilton

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   Jan 6, 2015 · 4.8 849 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. “THE PEOPLE COULD FLY,” the title story in Virginia Hamilton’s prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom.

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   Is the people could fly a good book?

   • The New York Times review by Ishmael Reed called The People Could Fly "extraordinary and wonderful", commended Hamilton for writing "these tales in the Black English of the slave storytellers" and found it "Handsomely illustrated". The People Could Fly has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Common Sense Media,

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   What is the story 'the people could fly' by Virginia Hamilton about?

   • “THE PEOPLE COULD FLY,” the title story in Virginia Hamilton’s prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom.

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   Who wrote the people could fly?

   • This is a picture book edition of a single story from Virginia Hamilton’s collection The People Could Fly: American Black Folk Tales. The narrative of this folktale is in the tradition of oral storytelling, lyrical and moving. Prior to capture into slavery, some Africans had the magical power of flight.

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   Is the people could fly a folktale?

   • It has no specific author: "The child-and-animal combination goes back to times when the slave was made the story teller to the slave owner's children"pg 64. You have to listen to what you're parents say is the evidence of the theme of this story. I really think this folktale was awesome! In The People could Fly, you can tell is a folktale because…

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   The People Could Fly has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Common Sense Media, It has been used in study. The book inspired the title of the 2021 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, Before Yesterday We Could Fly. Awards. The People Could Fly has received a number of awards, including: