Ashley Bryan is an acclaimed author, artist, and educator who has earned numerous honors, including the Arbuthnot Award for lifetime achievement, the Regina Medal, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and several Coretta Scott King awards and honors. He lives in Little Cranberry Island, Maine.
"Bryan's seminal collections of slave songs and 'sorrow songs'
(originally published by Atheneum in 1974 and 1982, respectively)
have been reissued, updated, and beautifully redesigned with a new
introduction by Bryan and a foreword by Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith."
-- Elissa Gershowitz, the Horn Book
"Alazar Press presents handsome new editions of Ashley Bryan's
first two books of spirituals, long out of print. Each title
presents two dozen selections, pairing striking linocut
illustrations with lyrics and music." -- Joy Fleishhacker, School
Library Journal
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