Lies and Other Tall Tales
By Zora Neale Hurston; Christopher Myers (Illustrator); Joyce Carol Thomas
(HarperCollins, Hardcover, 9780060006556, 40pp.)
Publication Date: October 2005
Other Editions of This Title: Library Binding
Categories: Fairy Tales & Folklore - Black American
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LIES AND OTHER TALL TALES
These tales are so tall they touch the sky! From Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers and Zora Neale Hurston.
While traveling in the Gulf States in the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston collected and recorded some real whoppers told by folks from all walks of life. Not "dog ate my homework" kind of lies, but tales so wild you didn't ever want to hear the truth. And now today's picture–book readers can enjoy these far–fetched fibs, with Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers's spirited adaption and bold, expressive collages.
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist whose fictional and factual accounts of black heritage remain unparalleled. Her many books include Dust Tracks on a Road; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Jonah's Gourd Vine; Moses, Man of the Mountain; Mules and Men; and Every Tongue Got to Confess.
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