Virginia Esther Hamilton était une auteure à succès et primée de littérature young adult et enfantine. Elle est née à Yellow Springs, Ohio, en 1934 et a grandi dans une famille étendue avec un riche héritage culturel. Son grand-père a été amené à Ohio via le Chemin de fer clandestin, ce qui a joué un rôle significatif dans la formation de son identité et de son écriture.
Hamilton a reçu une bourse d'études complète pour l'Antioch College à Yellow Springs et a ensuite été transférée à l'Université de l'État de l'Ohio à Columbus, où elle a étudié la littérature et l'écriture créative. Après s'être installée à New York City en 1958, elle a poursuivi son rêve de devenir auteure publiée, étudiant l'écriture de fictions à la New School for Social Research sous Hiram Haydn. C'est à New York qu'elle a rencontré son mari, le poète Arnold Adoff, avec qui elle a eu deux enfants.
La carrière d'écriture de Hamilton s'est étendue sur plus de quatre décennies, au cours desquelles elle a produit 41 livres dans plusieurs genres, notamment des livres-images, des contes populaires, des mystères, de la science-fiction, des romans réalistes et des biographies. Elle a été la première écrivaine noire à recevoir la Médaille Newbery et la première auteure de littérature enfantine à être nommée MacArthur Fellow. Elle a également remporté le National Book Award et la Médaille Hans Christian Andersen. L'œuvre de Hamilton, qu'elle décrivait comme de la « Littérature de libération », explorait souvent des thèmes tels que la mémoire, la tradition et le legs intergénérationnel, avec un accent particulier sur l'expérience afro-américaine.
Cousins Books
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Cousins
1990
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Second Cousins
1998
Dies Drear Chronicles Books
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The House of Dies Drear
1968
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The Mystery of Drear House
1987
Justice and Her Brothers Books
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Justice and Her Brothers
1978
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Dustland
1980
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The Gathering
1981
Romans indépendants
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Zeely
1967
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The Planet of Junior Brown
1971
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The Planet of Junior Brown (With: Jerry Pinkney)
1971
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M.C. Higgins, the Great
1974
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Arilla Sun Down
1979
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Jahdu
1980
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Jahdu (With: Jerry Pinkney)
1980
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Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
1982
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The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
1983
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Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed
1983
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A Little Love
1984
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Junius Over Far
1985
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A White Romance
1987
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The Bells of Christmas
1989
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Drylongso (With: Jerry Pinkney)
1992
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Drylongso
1992
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Plain City
1993
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Jaguarundi
1997
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Bluish
1999
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The Girl Who Spun Gold
2000
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Time Pieces
2002
Livres d'images
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Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl
2003
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Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny
2004
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The People Could Fly
2004
Collections
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The Time-Ago Tales of Jahdu
1969
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Time-Ago Lost: More Tales of Jahdu
1973
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In the Beginning
1988
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The Dark Way
1990
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The All Jahdu Storybook
1991
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Her Stories
1995
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When Birds Could Talk And Bats Could Sing
1996
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Ring Of Tricksters
1997
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African American Folktales
2000
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Liberation Literature
2024
Livres de non-fiction
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Paul Robeson
1974
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W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography
1984
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Anthony Burns
1988
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Many Thousand Gone
1993
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Speeches, Essays, And Conversations
2010
Harper Trophy Books
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The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
1983
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Hurry Home, Candy (By: Meindert DeJong)
1953
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Hurry Home, Candy
1953
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Shadrach (By: Meindert DeJong)
1953
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Shadrach
1953
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Little Witch
1953
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Little Witch (By: Anna Elizabeth Bennett)
1953
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Along Came a Dog
1958
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Along Came a Dog (By: Meindert DeJong)
1958
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The Summer of the Falcon (By: Jean Craighead George)
1962
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Grizzly
1964
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Grizzly (By: Gilbert Riswold)
1964
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Noonday Friends
1965
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The Seventeenth-Street Gang
1966
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Noonday Friends (By: Mary Stolz)
1965
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The Seventeenth-Street Gang (By: Emily Cheney Neville)
1966
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The Haunted Mountain
1972
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The Park Book
1972
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Sour Land (By: William H. Armstrong)
1971
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The Park Book (By: Charlotte Zolotow)
1972
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The Sign Of The Chrysanthemum
1973
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A Billion for Boris
1974
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The Haunted Mountain (By: Mollie Hunter)
1972
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A Stranger Came Ashore
1975
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The Sign of the Chrysanthemum (By: Katherine Paterson)
1973
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The Wicked One
1977
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A Billion for Boris (By: Mary Rodgers)
1974
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Runaway to Freedom
1978
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A Stranger Came Ashore (By: Mollie Hunter)
1975
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The Wicked One (By: Mollie Hunter)
1977
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Poem stew
1981
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Summer Switch
1982
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Runaway To Freedom ( By: Barbara Smucker)
1979
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Poem stew (By: William Cole)
1981
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The Land I Lost (By: Quang Nhuong Huynh)
1982
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Desdemona-Twelve Going on Desperate
1986
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Summer Switch (By: Mary Rodgers)
1982
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Hey World, Here I Am!
1986
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The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish
1987
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Hey World, Here I Am! (By: Jean Little)
1986
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Stonewords
1990
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Crush
1998
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Desdemona-Twelve Going on Desperate (By: Beverly Keller)
1986
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The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish (By: Betsy Byars)
1987
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Good Night, Maman
1999
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Stonewords (By: Pam Conrad)
1990
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Pilot Down, Presumed Dead
2009
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What's So Terrible About Swallowing an Apple Seed? (By: Harriet Lerner, Susan Goldhor)
1996
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The Land I Lost
2016
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Crush (By: Ellen Conford)
1998
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Will Spring Be Early? Or Will Spring Be Late?
2018
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Good Night, Maman (By: Norma Fox Mazer)
1999
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Pilot Down, Presumed Dead (By: Marjorie Phleger)
2009
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Will Spring Be Early? Or Will Spring Be Late? (By: Crockett Johnson)
2018
Jerry Pinkney as Illustrator
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Tales from Africa
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Tales from Africa (By: Jerry Pinkney, Lila Green)
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The Ugly Duckling (By: Jerry Pinkney)
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The Ugly Duckling
1843
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The Little Match Girl
1845
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The Little Match Girl (By: Jerry Pinkney)
1845
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (By: Jerry Pinkney)
1894
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
1894
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Early Autumn ( By: Jerry Pinkney)
1927
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The Education of Henry Adams
1918
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The Flowering of New England (By: Jerry Pinkney)
1936
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Lolita (By: Jerry Pinkney)
1955
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The Flowering of New England
1936
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Lolita
1955
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Rabbit, Run (By: Jerry Pinkney)
1960
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The Adventures of Spider (By: Jerry Pinkney, Joyce Cooper Arkhurst)
1964
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Rabbit, Run
1960
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The Year Around Book (By: Jerry Pinkney)
1965
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The Adventures of Spider
1964
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This is Music for Kindergarten and Nursery School (By: Jerry Pinkney, Adeline McCall)
1965
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The Traveling Frog (By: Jerry Pinkney, V. M. Garshin)
1966
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This is Music for Kindergarten and Nursery School
1965
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A Book of Shapes & Sizes (By: Jerry Pinkney)
1966
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The Traveling Frog
1966
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A Book of Shapes & Sizes
1966
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The Beautiful Blue Jay, and other Tales of India (By: Jerry Pinkney, John W. Spellman)
1967
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The Beautiful Blue Jay, and other Tales of India
1967
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Even Tiny Ants Must Sleep ( By: Jerry Pinkney)
1967
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The Clock Museum (By: Jerry Pinkney, Ken. Sobol)
1967
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Even Tiny Ants Must Sleep
1967
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The Clock Museum
1967
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Folktales and Fairytales of Africa (By: Jerry Pinkney, Lila Green)
1967
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Folktales and Fairytales of Africa
1967
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Shoes, Pennies, and Rockets (By: Jerry Pinkney, Ralph Alan Dale)
1968
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Shoes, Pennies, and Rockets
1968
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Kostas the Rooster (By: Jerry Pinkney, Traudl)
1968
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Kostas the Rooster
1968
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The Twin Witches of Fingle Fu (By: Jerry Pinkney)
1969
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Juano and the Wonderful Fresh Fish. (By: Jerry Pinkney, Thelma. Shaw)
1969
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Babushka and the Pig (By: Jerry Pinkney, Ann Trofimuk)
1969
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Juano and the Wonderful Fresh Fish.
1969
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The Porcupine and the Tiger (By: Jerry Pinkney, Fern Powell)
1970
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Babushka and the Pig
1969
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Cora Annett's Homerhenry (By: Jerry Pinkney, Cora Annett)
1970
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The Porcupine and the Tiger
1970
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Cora Annett's Homerhenry
1970
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The King's Ditch (By: Jerry Pinkney, Francine Jacobs)
1971
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The King's Ditch
1971
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The Planet of Junior Brown (With: Jerry Pinkney)
1971
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Femi and Old Grandaddie (By: Jerry Pinkney, Adjai Robinson)
1972
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The Planet of Junior Brown
1971
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JD (By: Jerry Pinkney, Mari Evans)
1973
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Femi and Old Grandaddie
1972
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JD
1973
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Kasho and the Twin Flutes. (By: Jerry Pinkney, Adjai Robinson)
1973
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Prince Littlefoot (By: Jerry Pinkney, Berniece Freschet)
1973
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Kasho and the Twin Flutes.
1973
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Prince Littlefoot
1973
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Mickey and Minny ( By: Jerry Pinkney)
1973
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The Great Minu ( By: Jerry Pinkney)
1974
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Roots of Time (By: Jerry Pinkney, Elliott P. Skinner)
1974
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Song of the Trees (By: Jerry Pinkney, Mildred D. Taylor)
1975
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Roots of Time
1974
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Song of the Trees
1975
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Wuthering Heights ( By: Jerry Pinkney)
1975
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (By: Jerry Pinkney, Mildred D. Taylor)
1975
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1975
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Yagua Days (By: Jerry Pinkney, Cruz Martel)
1976
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Gulliver's Travels (By: Jerry Pinkney)
1977
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Yagua Days
1976
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Selected plays (By: Jerry Pinkney)
1977
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The Winthrop Covenant
1976
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Gulliver's Travels
1977
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Ji-Nongo-Nongo Means Riddles (By: Jerry Pinkney, Verna Aardema)
1978
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Selected plays
1977
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History of Tom Jones a Founding ( By: Jerry Pinkney)
1978
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Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir (By: Jerry Pinkney, Eloise Greenfield, Lessie Jones Little)
1979
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Ji-Nongo-Nongo Means Riddles
1978
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Tonweya and the Eagles (By: Jerry Pinkney, Rosebud Yellow Robe)
1979
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These Thirteen ( By: Jerry Pinkney)
1979
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Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir
1979
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Tonweya and the Eagles
1979
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More Adventures of Spider (By: Jerry Pinkney, Joyce Cooper Arkhurst)
1980
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Count on Your Fingers African Style (By: Jerry Pinkney)
1980
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The Covenant ( By: Jerry Pinkney)
1980
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More Adventures of Spider
1980
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Jahdu (With: Jerry Pinkney)
1980
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Count on Your Fingers African Style
1980
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Rabbit Redux ( By: Jerry Pinkney)
1981
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Monster Myths of Ancient Greece (By: Jerry Pinkney, William A. Wise)
1981
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Jahdu
1980
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Apples On A Stick (By: Jerry Pinkney, Barbara Michels, Bettye White)
1983
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The Patchwork Quilt (By: Jerry Pinkney, Valerie Flournoy)
1985
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Monster Myths of Ancient Greece
1981
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Apples On A Stick
1983
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Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna (By: Jerry Pinkney, Nancy White Carlstrom)
1987
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The Patchwork Quilt
1985
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Pop-Up: Strange Animals of the Sea (By: National Geographic Society, Jerry Pinkney, Jane Heath Buxton)
1987
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Mirandy and Brother Wind (By: Jerry Pinkney, Patricia McKissack)
1988
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Half a Moon and One Whole Star
1986
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The Green Lion of Zion Street (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julia Fields)
1988
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Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna
1987
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More Tales of Uncle Remus (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester)
1988
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Pop-Up: Strange Animals of the Sea
1987
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Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion (By: Jerry Pinkney, Verna Aardema)
1989
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Mirandy and Brother Wind
1988
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The Talking Eggs (By: Jerry Pinkney, Robert D. San Souci)
1989
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The Green Lion of Zion Street
1988
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Turtle in July (By: Jerry Pinkney, Marilyn Singer)
1989
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More Tales of Uncle Remus
1988
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Pretend You're a Cat (By: Jerry Pinkney, Jean Marzollo)
1990
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Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion
1989
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The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket (By: Jerry Pinkney, Sonia Levitin)
1991
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The Talking Eggs
1989
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Their Eyes Were Watching God ( By: Jerry Pinkney)
1991
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Turtle in July
1989
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Home Place
1990
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David's Songs (By: Jerry Pinkney, Colin Eisler)
1992
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Back Home (By: Jerry Pinkney, Gloria Jean Pinkney)
1992
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Pretend You're a Cat
1990
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Drylongso (With: Jerry Pinkney)
1992
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In for Winter, Out for Spring
1991
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The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket
1991
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A Starlit Somersault Downhill (By: Jerry Pinkney, Nancy Willard)
1993
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I Want to Be (By: Jerry Pinkney, Thylias Moss)
1993
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David's Songs
1992
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New Shoes for Silvia (By: Jerry Pinkney, Johanna Hurwitz)
1993
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Back Home
1992
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The Sunday Outing (By: Jerry Pinkney, Gloria Jean Pinkney)
1994
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John Henry (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester)
1994
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Drylongso
1992
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A Starlit Somersault Downhill
1993
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The Jungle Book ( By: Jerry Pinkney)
1995
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Tanya's Reunion (By: Jerry Pinkney, Valerie Flournoy)
1995
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I Want to Be
1993
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New Shoes for Silvia
1993
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Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman (By: Jerry Pinkney, Alan Schroeder)
1996
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The Sunday Outing
1994
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Sam and the Tigers (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester)
1996
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The Hired Hand (By: Jerry Pinkney, Robert D. San Souci)
1997
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John Henry
1994
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Black Cowboy, Wild Horses (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester)
1998
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Tanya's Reunion
1995
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Journeys with Elijah (By: Jerry Pinkney, Barbara Diamond Goldin)
1999
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Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
1996
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Aesop's Fables (By: Jerry Pinkney)
2000
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Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester)
2000
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Sam and the Tigers
1996
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Goin' Someplace Special (By: Jerry Pinkney, Patricia McKissack)
2001
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The Hired Hand
1997
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Black Cowboy, Wild Horses
1998
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Noah's Ark (By: Jerry Pinkney)
2002
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Journeys with Elijah
1999
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The Nightingale (By: Jerry Pinkney)
2002
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The Old African (By: Jerry Pinkney, Julius Lester)
2005
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Aesop's Fables
2000
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Music from Our Lord's Holy Heaven Book and CD (By: Jerry Pinkney, Brian Pinkney, Myles C. Pinkney, Gloria Jean Pinkney)
2005
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Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream
2000
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Ain't Nobody a Stranger to Me (By: Jerry Pinkney, Ann Grifalconi)
2007
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Goin' Someplace Special
2001
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The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll (By: Jerry Pinkney, Patricia McKissack)
2007
162
Noah's Ark
2002
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Sweethearts of Rhythm (By: Marilyn Nelson)
2009
164
The Nightingale
2002
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God Bless the Child
2003
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A Starlit Snowfall (By: Jerry Pinkney, Nancy Willard)
2011
167
The Old African
2005
168
The First Adventures of Spider (By: Jerry Pinkney, Joyce Cooper Arkhurst)
2012
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The Further Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales (By: Jerry Pinkney, Joyce Cooper Arkhurst)
2012
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Music from Our Lord's Holy Heaven Book and CD
2005
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Ain't Nobody a Stranger to Me
2007
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In Plain Sight (By: Jerry Pinkney, Richard Jackson)
2016
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The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll
2007
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The Christmas Boot (By: Jerry Pinkney)
2016
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The Moon Over Star
2008
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A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation (By: Jerry Pinkney, Barry Wittenstein)
2018
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A Home in the Barn (By: Margaret Wise Brown, Jerry Pinkney)
2018
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Sweethearts of Rhythm
2009
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A Starlit Snowfall
2011
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The Little Mermaid (By: Jerry Pinkney)
2020
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The First Adventures of Spider
2012
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A Walk in the Woods (By: Jerry Pinkney, Nikki Grimes)
2023
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The Further Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales
2012
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In Plain Sight
2016
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The Christmas Boot
2016
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A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
2018
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A Home in the Barn
2018
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Billie Holiday: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations