Jerry Pinkney Livres

Retells the final adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies

Parce que ce caneton est différent de ses frères, tous les animaux de la basse-cour se moquent de lui ! Il commence alors un long voyage, au cours duquel animaux et humains continuent de le railler et de le rejeter. Un jour, il croise de superbes oiseaux blancs : des cygnes. Mais pourquoi se sent-il tellement attiré par eux ? La vérité sera encore plus belle que ses rêves...

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.

Day or two later Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters people pray for freedom - they sing 'bout freedom, but to keep Mas' Henley from knowin' their true feelings, they call freedom "heaven". Everybody's mind is on freedom. But it is the word that aine never showed me no picture. While fannin' this afternoon, my eyes fell on "freedom" in a book William was readin'. No wonder I don't see nothin'.I been spellin' it F-R-E-D-U-M. I put the right letters in my head to make sure I remembered their place. F-R-E-E-D-O-M. I just wrote it. Still no picture...

Mirandy is sure she'll win the cake walk if she can catch Brother Wind for her partner, but he eludes all the tricks her friends advise. This gets a high score for plot, pace, and characterization. Mirandy sparkles with energy and determination. Multi-hued watercolors fill the pages with patterned ferment. A treat to pass on to new generations.

MIAMI JACKSON CAN’T wait for school to end. But who ever thought five days could be so long? His teacher is leaving for Ghana, his arch-enemy, Destinee Tate, is on his case, and now Miami’s keeping secrets from his best friend, String. Summer can’t come soon enough!

A retelling of the Afro-American tales about the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

When it is neither day nor night, when shadows lurk and folks scurry home before the ghosts come out, storytelling takes on a spectral cast. During that special half-hour of twilight--the dark-thirty--pick one of these spine-tingling tales and savor it...-A white bus driver who refuses a ride to a penniless black woman later encounters her ghost.-Phantom pictures etched on the windowpanes of a man's house proclaim his guilt in a lynching. -A retired Pullman porter hears a ghostly whistle and knows it's the last train he'll ever ride. Mesmerizing and breathtakingly original, these tales are inspired by African American history and range from the time of slavery to the civil rights era of the twentieth century. With her extraordinary gift for suspense and her sure sense of storytelling, Patricia C. McKissack has created a heart-stopping collection of lasting value, a book not quickly forgotten.

La cultura griega se caracteriza por ser racional, didáctica y forjadora de valores. Tales rasgos resultaron ser tan potentes que se traspasaron a todos los rincones del mundo helénico; así nació la fábula, relato de animales y/o personas cuyos actos encierran razonamientos y generan enseñanzas. En este hermoso libro se han seleccionado sesenta fábulas de Esopo, un género y un autor imitados sin cesar. Su permanente popularidad no es de extrañar, pues cada relato nos depara una sinfín de sorpresas: un molinero y su hijo deciden llevar a un burro a cuestas, un lobo se disfraza con una piel de oveja, una oca pone huevos de oro, una tortuga vence a una liebre en una carreraày mucho, mucho más.