Little man, little man :
a story of childhood /
by James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac ; edited by Nicholas Boggs and Jennifer DeVere Brody.

Description

Main Author

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

Related Names

Brody, Jennifer DeVere, editor.
Boggs, Nicholas, 1973-, editor.
Cazac, Yoran, illustrator.
Duke University Press

Language(s)

English

Published

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Subjects

Coming of age > Coming of age / Fiction.
Neighborhoods > Neighborhoods / Fiction.
Friendship > Friendship / Fiction.
African Americans > African Americans / Fiction.
African American children > African American children / Fiction.
African American boys > African American boys / Fiction.
City and town life > City and town life / New York (State) > City and town life / New York (State) / New York.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Harlem (New York, N.Y.) / Fiction.

Summary

Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. This new edition includes a foreword by Baldwin's nephew Tejan "TJ" Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his niece Aisha Karefa-Smart, with an introduction by two Baldwin scholars. In it we not only see life in 1970s Harlem from a black child's perspective, but we also gain a fuller appreciation of the genius of one of America's greatest writers.

Physical Description

98 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

ISBN

147800004X
9781478000044

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