Julius Lester

Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.

It seems animals are like people in many ways—they just can't get along with one another. And Brer Rabbit has the most trouble of all. Maybe it's his mischievous ways, or maybe it's because adventures always come looking for him. There was the frightening day that Brer Rabbit found himself attached to a baby made of sticky tar. Brer Fox would have had a tasty barbecue that evening if Brer Rabbit hadn't been such a quick thinker. Then there was the...

A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

When John Calvin Marshall graduated from Harvard in 1956, he was prepared for a life of teaching and relative tranquility. But history had another plan for him: here, a veteran author re-envisions the Martin Luther King Jr. story in fearful, exciting, and violent terms. Political and provocative, And All Our Wounds Forgiven is both a compelling political fable and a striking and tender love story about one of this century's most charismatic black...

Follows the adventures of a little boy named Sam when he matches wits with several tigers that want to eat him.

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

The author retells the classic Afro-American tales.

Retells six tales from American black folk literature: "Why the Waves Have Whitecaps, " "Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear, " "Why Dogs Hate Cats, " "The Farmer and the Snake, " "What is Trouble?" and "The Knee-High Man."

Discovering that making a world takes a lot of work, God calls on his secretary Bruce and the angel Shaniqua to help him create bushes, grass, flowers, and butterflies.