Tired of milking when he would rather bask in the sun, Thulani sells the cow and begins a series of exchanges that results in a sunflower crop and prosperity.
After Tibili, a young African boy, follows Crope the spider's suggestion as to how he can avoid starting school, he discovers he wants to go after all.
Brief biographies of twenty-one lesser known black men and women who made significant contributions to history and the black heritage from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.
A collection of short stories which portrays the hopes, pleasures, and frustrations of a sensitive black country boy who is anxious to learn about the world around him.
In mid-nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, an old woman and a young village girl conspire to save a runaway African slave by passing her off as the woman's niece.
