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Virginia was the first African American woman to win the Newbery Award, for M.C. She was educated at Antioch College and Ohio State University and did further study in literature and the novel at the New School for Social Research. Her grandfather settled in the village after escaping slavery in Virginia. Virginia Hamilton, storyteller, lecturer, and biographer, was born and raised in Yellow Springs, OH, which is said to be a station on the Underground Railroad. With the added attraction of 40 wonderfully expressive paintings by the Dillons, this collection should be snapped up.-(starred) School Library Journal. The well-known author retells 24 black American folk tales in sure storytelling voice: animal tales, supernatural tales, fanciful and cautionary tales, and slave tales of freedom.
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