Book Description
for What a Morning! by John M. Langstaff, Ashley Bryan, and John Andrew Ross
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
The Christmas story is told through a chronological arrangement of five Afro-American spirituals, lavishly illustrated by brilliant tempera paintings. Brief Biblical quotes accompanying each of the spirituals provide a religious context, while Ashley Bryan's shining iconographic portraits of a Black Nativity provide historical, geographical and emotional content. (Age 3 and older)
CCBC Choices 1987 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1987. Used with permission.
