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What a Morning!: The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals
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What a Morning!: The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals Hardcover - 1987

by John Langstaff; Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)

Five exuberant spirituals, pictured in strong, brilliantly colored paintings, tell the Christmas story chronologically. The music includes simple arrangements for singing and piano and guitar chords. Full-color illustrations.


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  • Title What a Morning!: The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals
  • Author John Langstaff; Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Margaret K. McElderry Books, New York
  • Date September 30, 1987
  • ISBN 9780689504228 / 0689504225
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.3 x 8.64 x 0.4 in (26.16 x 21.95 x 1.02 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 08 years
  • Grade levels P - 3
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87750130
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.25

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 09/11/1987, Page 0

About the author

John Meredith Langstaff (1920-2005) was a music educator and author who created the Christmas Revels and wrote the Caldecott Medal-winning children's book Frog Went A-Courtin'.

Ashley Bryan (1923-2022) grew up to the sound of his mother singing from morning to night, and he shared the joy of song with children. A beloved illustrator, he was named a Newbery Honoree for his picture book, Freedom Over Me. He also received the Coretta Scott King--Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, was a May Hill Arbuthnot lecturer, a Coretta Scott King Award winner, and the recipient of countless other awards and recognitions. His books include Freedom Over Me; Sail Away; Beautiful Blackbird; Beat the Story-Drum, Pum Pum; Let It Shine; Ashley Bryan's Book of Puppets; and What a Wonderful World. He lived in Islesford, one of the Cranberry Isles off the coast of Maine.

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