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Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
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Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit Paperback - 1999

by Lester, Julius

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Pinkney's lively and humorous illustrations are a perfect match for Lester's contemporary approach, which expertly introduces a modern sense of humor to these 48 tales while paying homage to their roots as traditional American folklore. Illustrations.

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Puffin Books, 1999-01-01. Reprint. paperback. Used: Good.
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  • Title Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
  • Author Lester, Julius
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 143
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Puffin Books, New York, NY
  • Date 1999-01-01
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0141303476
  • ISBN 9780141303475 / 0141303476
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 5.78 x 0.38 in (23.72 x 14.68 x 0.97 cm)
  • Reading level 760
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Library of Congress subjects Animals, African Americans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 85020449
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.208

First line

Most folks don't know it, but the animals didn't always live on earth.

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 02/01/1999, Page 0

About the author

Julius Lester was an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of books for both adults and children. He won numerous awards, including the Coretta Scott King Award, the Newbery Honor Medal, the American Library Association Notable Book award, the New York Times Out­standing Book award, the Caldecott Honor Book award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His novel To Be a Slave is the first Newbery Medal Honor Book by a Black author. He taught for over three decades at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was awarded all three of the university's most prestigious faculty awards. Mr. Lester passed away in 2018 at the age of seventy-eight.

Jerry Pinkney was one of America's most admired children's book illustrators and illustrated more than one hundred picture books. He won the Caldecott Medal and five Caldecott Honors, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, and many other prizes and honors. He illustrated two books written by his wife of sixty-one years, Gloria Jean: Back Home and The Sunday Outing. Jerry Pinkney passed away in 2021 at the age of eighty-two. Learn more about his life and legacy at JerryPinkneyStudio.com.