African American Folktales - Picture Books

1.
John Henry
John Henry 4.24 avg rating — 4,041 ratings
2.
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales 4.39 avg rating — 619 ratings
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales 4.30 avg rating — 1,675 ratings
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John Henry
John Henry 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
5.
All Us Come Cross the Water
All Us Come Cross the Water really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Soulful Holidays: An inclusive rhyming story celebrating the joys of Christmas and Kwanzaa
Soulful Holidays: An inclusive rhyming story celebrating the joys of Christmas and Kwanzaa 4.75 avg rating — 60 ratings
7.
Mirandy and Brother Wind (Dragonfly Books)
Mirandy and Brother Wind (Dragonfly Books) 4.06 avg rating — 1,306 ratings
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The Annotated African American Folktales
The Annotated African American Folktales 4.55 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit 4.02 avg rating — 846 ratings
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Sam and the Tigers: A Retelling of 'Little Black Sambo'
Sam and the Tigers: A Retelling of 'Little Black Sambo' 3.88 avg rating — 523 ratings
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The Freedom Riddle
The Freedom Riddle 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Lies and Other Tall Tales
Lies and Other Tall Tales 3.62 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Keelboat Annie: An African-American Legend
Keelboat Annie: An African-American Legend 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
14.
One Hundred and One African-American Read-Aloud Stories
One Hundred and One African-American Read-Aloud Stories 4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Tailypo
The Tailypo 4.21 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Bo Rabbit Smart for True: Tall Tales From the Gullah
Bo Rabbit Smart for True: Tall Tales From the Gullah 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Giant Treasury of Brer Rabbit
Giant Treasury of Brer Rabbit 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
18.
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales 4.38 avg rating — 828 ratings
19.
Black Folktales
Black Folktales 4.05 avg rating — 151 ratings
20.
Sukey And The Mermaid
Sukey And The Mermaid 4.22 avg rating — 373 ratings
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The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South 4.29 avg rating — 5,533 ratings
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Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs, and Stories from an African American Childhood
Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: Games, Songs, and Stories from an African American Childhood 4.24 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Hired Hand
The Hired Hand 3.84 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Boy and the Ghost
The Boy and the Ghost 3.96 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Secret of the Stones (Phyllis Fogelman Books)
The Secret of the Stones (Phyllis Fogelman Books) 4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Sure as Sunrise: Stories of Bruh Rabbit and His Walkin' Talkin' Friends
Sure as Sunrise: Stories of Bruh Rabbit and His Walkin' Talkin' Friends 3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale
Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale 3.70 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Big Sixteen
Big Sixteen 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Three Witches
The Three Witches 3.46 avg rating — 68 ratings
30.
Flossie and the Fox
Flossie and the Fox 4.23 avg rating — 1,019 ratings
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Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella 4.06 avg rating — 1,831 ratings
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California, the Magic Island
California, the Magic Island 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Old Mister Rabbit
Old Mister Rabbit 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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How Mr. Dog Got Tame
How Mr. Dog Got Tame 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Leola and the Honeybears
Leola and the Honeybears 4.22 avg rating — 76 ratings
36.
The Knee-High Man
The Knee-High Man really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Knee-High Man and Other Tales
The Knee-High Man and Other Tales 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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When Birds Could Talk And Bats Could Sing
When Birds Could Talk And Bats Could Sing 3.78 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Tailypo
Tailypo 3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings
40.
Tailypo! (An Owlet Book)
Tailypo! (An Owlet Book)
by: Jan Wahl
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Little Eight John
Little Eight John
by: Jan Wahl
3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings