With her children’s book The People Could Fly, Virginia Hamilton retells a timeless folktale shared by slaves as they endured the lash of the whip and longed for freedom on the plantations of the American south. Passed down from generation to generation, Hamilton, the granddaughter of a fugitive slave, originally heard the tale as a child. Leo and Diane Dillon’s powerful illustrations enhance the magical story of slaves who had wings, who used those wings to soar away from the heavy chains of slavery, and the story of all those slaves left behind, praying for their own chance at freedom.

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Virginia Hamilton – http://www.virginiahamilton.com/
Leo and Diane Dillon – http://www.nccil.org/artists/leo-diane-dillon

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