Toni Morrison
Author
Language
English
Description
Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!
Generation after generation, classic fables, folklore, and myth remain popular because they quicken the imagination of listeners of all ages.
We, the creators of Who's Got Game?, were inspired by the wonder of Aesop's fables — their vitality, their endless demand for new interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralistic endings...
Generation after generation, classic fables, folklore, and myth remain popular because they quicken the imagination of listeners of all ages.
We, the creators of Who's Got Game?, were inspired by the wonder of Aesop's fables — their vitality, their endless demand for new interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralistic endings...
Author
Language
English
Description
Who IS the foreigner? Am I the foreigner in my own home? Who decides? Such were the questions posed by renowned author Toni Morrison at her 2006 guest-curated exhibit at the Louvre, "The Foreigner's Home". There she invited several renowned artists whose work also dealt with the experience of cultural and social displacement to join her in a public discussion that Morrison herself had been pursuing through her own research and writing.
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Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A version of Aesop's Fables finds two friends, a grasshopper and an ant, who each spend their time differently preparing for winter in a tale of friendship, betrayal, and survival.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
287 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of eight children's books by Toni Morrison, which includes retellings of some of Aesop's fables as well as stories of friendship and imagination.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Children spend the day with their grandmother, who ignores their mother's carefully planned schedule in favor of activities that are much more fun.