https://www.zoranealehurston.com/childrens-books/Recent content in Children's Books on Zora Neale HurstonHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThe Official Website of Zora Neale HurstonTue, 07 Mar 2023 04:00:00 +0000https://www.zoranealehurston.com/childrens-books/the-making-of-butterflies-adapted-by-ibram-x-kendi/Tue, 07 Mar 2023 04:00:00 +0000https://www.zoranealehurston.com/childrens-books/the-making-of-butterflies-adapted-by-ibram-x-kendi/Amazon.ca Best Book of the Year “Kendi and Yangni collaborate to introduce young children to the African American folklore tradition and to Hurston’s importance within that tradition.” —The Horn Book A First Folktale from the creators of Magnolia Flower, Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, about the origin of butterflies. The Creator wuz all finished and thru makin’ de world. But soon, the Creator finds themselves flying through the sky, making gorgeous butterflies of every color, shape, and size.https://www.zoranealehurston.com/childrens-books/barracoon-adapted-by-ibram-x-kendi/Mon, 23 Jan 2023 04:00:00 +0000https://www.zoranealehurston.com/childrens-books/barracoon-adapted-by-ibram-x-kendi/An Instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller! In the first middle grade offering from Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, young readers are introduced to the remarkable and true-life story of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of the Atlantic human trade, in an adaptation of the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Barracoon. This is the life story of Cudjo Lewis, as told by himself. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America to be enslaved, eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis was then the only person alive to tell the story of his capture and bondage—fifty years after the Atlantic human trade was outlawed in the United States.https://www.zoranealehurston.com/childrens-books/magnolia-flower-adapted-by-ibram-x-kendi/Tue, 06 Sep 2022 04:00:00 +0000https://www.zoranealehurston.com/childrens-books/magnolia-flower-adapted-by-ibram-x-kendi/Bank Street Children’s Best Books of the Year A Kirkus and Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2022! A Bank Street College of Education’s Children’s Book Committee’s Best Children’s Books of the Year pick! From beloved African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston comes a moving adaptation by National Book Award winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and Antiracist Baby, Ibram X. Kendi. Magnolia Flower follows a young Afro Indigenous girl who longs for freedom and is gorgeously illustrated by Loveis Wise (The People Remember, Ablaze with Color).https://www.zoranealehurston.com/childrens-books/lies-and-other-tall-tales/Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:00:00 +0000https://www.zoranealehurston.com/childrens-books/lies-and-other-tall-tales/What’s the shortest man you ever seen? I seen a man so short, he had to get up on a box to look over a grain of sand. And the fastest? I seen a man run so hard that he lost his feets. Back in the day, there were liars who could lie so good, you didn’t even want to know the truth. And we have Zora Neale Hurston to thank for collecting their stories.https://www.zoranealehurston.com/childrens-books/the-skull-talks-back-and-other-haunting-tales/Tue, 27 Jul 2004 04:00:00 +0000https://www.zoranealehurston.com/childrens-books/the-skull-talks-back-and-other-haunting-tales/Do you dare to cross paths with … An enchantress who can slip in and out of her skin, A man more evil than the devil, A skull who talks back, A pair of creepy feet that can walk on their own? Spooky, chilling, and fantastical, this collection of six scary tales will send shivers up your spine! The stories in the skull talks back have been selected from Every Tongue Got To Confess, Zora Neale Hurston’s third volume of folklore.