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Ashley Bryan

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Gender Female
DeathDied last year
Date of birth July 13,1923
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Harlem
New York
United States
GenresVocal Classics
Job Teacher
Illustrator
Writer
Education Columbia University
The Cooper Union
Cooper Union
Columbia University School of General Studies
Awards John Newbery Medal
Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction
Children's Literature Legacy Award
DiedSugar Land
Texas
United States
Notabl awardLaura Ingalls Wilder Medal
Date of died February 4,2022
Notabl workBeat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum
Beautiful Blackbird
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID433525

Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum
Let it Shine
Ashley Bryan's Puppets: Making Something from Everything
The dancing granny
Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry
Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life's Song
Story of Lightning & Thunder
I Am Loved
Turtle knows your name
The Night Has Ears: African Proverbs
The adventures of Aku
All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals
Ashley Bryan's African Tales, Uh-Huh
Walk Together Children: Black American Spirituals
The cat's purr
The ox of the wonderful horns, and other African folktales
Sing to the Sun: Poems and Pictures
What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals
By Trolley Past Thimbledon Bridge
Can't Scare Me! With Audio Recording
My America
Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids
Lion and the ostrich chicks, and other African folk tales
Aneesa Lee and the weaver's gift
The story of the three kingdoms
Poems and Folktales
How God fix Jonah
Why Leopard Has Spots
Beat the Story Drum
Salting the Ocean
Who Built the Stable? With Audio Recording
Sh-ko and his eight wicked brothers
Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories, Written by and about African-Americans
Blooming Beneath the Sun
I greet the dawn
A Nest Full of Stars: Poems
I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals, Volume Two
Jethro and the jumbie
Jump back, honey
The house with no door
Jim flying high
Sail Away
Climbing Jacob's Ladder: Heroes of the Bible in African-American Spirituals
It's Kwanzaa Time!
The Dancing Granny: And Other African Folktales
Pourquoi Tales: The Cat's Purr, Why Frog and Snake Never Play Together, The Fire Bringer. Grade 3
Infinite Hope: EA INFINITE HOPE UAB
Beautiful blackbird
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Ashley Frederick Bryan was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Most of his subjects are from the African-American experience. He was U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and he won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his contribution to American children's literature in 2009.

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