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When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing

The adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and their friends

by Virginia Hamilton

63 pages · 1999

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Based on African-American folktales told in the South during the plantation era, a collection of stories originally gathered by journalist Martha Young pays tribute to the human spirit in the face of terrible hardship.

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