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Christmas gif' : an anthology of Christmas poems, songs, and stories, written by and about African-Americans

Title
Christmas gif' : an anthology of Christmas poems, songs, and stories, written by and about African-Americans / compiled by Charlemae Rollins ; illustrated by Ashley Bryan ; with a new introduction by Augusta Baker.
Publication
New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Rollins, Charlemae Hill.
  • Bryan, Ashley.
  • Schomburg Children's Collection.
Description
xxii, 106 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
A collection of Christmas poems, songs, and stories relating to African Americans. Includes holiday recipes.
Alternative Title
Christmas gift.
Subjects
Note
  • Includes indexes.
Contents
  • A race is like man / John W. Vandercook -- Nativity / Aquah Laluah -- Memories of Christmas / Langston Hughes -- How come Christmas / Roark Bradford -- Plantation Christmas / Julia Peterkin -- Christmas gift / Zora Neale Hurston -- Legend of the black madonna / Margaret T. Applegarth -- Goat comes to the Christmas party / Eva Knox Evans -- New relations and duties / Frederick Douglass -- Anxious days and sleepless nights / Booker T. Washington -- Christmas is a-comin' / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Speakin' O' Christmas / P.L. Dunbar -- Christmas carol / P.L. Dunbar -- Little Christmas basket / P.L. Dunbar -- Through the holly wreath / Effie Lee Newsome -- Magi call him king / Effie Lee Newsome.
  • -- Carol of brown king / Langston Hughes -- Kid stuff / Frank Horne -- On pallet of straw / L. Hughes -- Peppermint candy march / Effie Lee Newsome -- Shepherd's song at Christmas / L. Hughes -- Christmas story / L. Hughes -- On Christmas night / L. Hughes -- Anonymous verse; from Puerto Rican Christmas card / Anon. -- Every man heart lay down / Lorentz Graham -- Stable / Gabriela Mistral -- Indian Christmas / G. Mistral -- Go tell it to the mountain / Negro spiritual -- Wasn't that a mighty day / Negro spiritual -- The Virgin Mary had a baby boy / Negro spiritual -- What you gonna name that pretty little boy? / Negro spiritual -- Rise up, shepherd, and follow / Negro spiritual -- God's Christmas tree / Evelyn C. Reynolds -- Under the mistletoe / Countee Cullen -- The Black Madonna / Albert Rice -- Otto / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Christmas recipes.
Call Number
Sc E 05-1275
ISBN
  • 0688116671 (trade)
  • 068811668X (lib. bdg.)
LCCN
92018976
OCLC
26162671
Title
Christmas gif' : an anthology of Christmas poems, songs, and stories, written by and about African-Americans / compiled by Charlemae Rollins ; illustrated by Ashley Bryan ; with a new introduction by Augusta Baker.
Imprint
New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1993.
Added Author
Rollins, Charlemae Hill.
Bryan, Ashley. Illustrator
Schomburg Children's Collection.
Added Title
Christmas gift.
Research Call Number
Sc E 05-1275
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