How God fix Jonah / by Lorenz Graham ; illustrated by Ashley Bryan ; foreword by W.E.B. Du Bois ; new foreword by Effie Lee Morris.

Author
Graham, Lorenz [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First revised edition.
Published/​Created
  • Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Boyds Mills Press, 2000.
  • ©2000
Description
156 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

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Author of foreword
Former owner
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Medium/​Support
  • monochrome rdacc
  • illustration rdaill
Summary note
Discover Bible stories transformed into a new literature when told from the heritage of West Africa.
Notes
Princeton copy 1 Gift of The Ashley Bryan Center in memory of John Wilmerding.
Contents
  • Forward by Effie Lee Morris
  • Foreword to the 1946 Edition by W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Introduction by Lorenz Graham
  • How God fix Jonah
  • Good in she heart
  • He no be keeper for him brother
  • David he no fear
  • Don't nobody sing
  • God wash the world and start again
  • Samson he weak for woman Palaver
  • Hongry catch the foolish boy
  • Pican in river grass
  • God make a road down in the sea
  • The be slaves too long
  • She got hard head you know
  • Death take him hand off pican heart
  • The shushan king love peace
  • Yam-leaf greens and rice
  • Old Satan try Job plenty
  • Brothers got bad heart for Joseph
  • Wise sword find true mommy
  • The babylonia princes Vex
  • Joshua be God's man
  • Every man heart lay down
  • Small boy teach wise men
  • God make plenty chop.
ISBN
  • 1563976986
  • 9781563976988
LCCN
99068099
OCLC
44617855
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