Monday, June 27, 2022

African Diaspora at Internet Archive: The Goober Patch

Starting off a new week, I wanted to share a fun brer Rabbit book which is full of peanuts: Brer Rabbit and the Goober Patch by Virginia Schomp.


The illustrations are by Jess Yeomans. Rabbit manages to steal the peanuts from Fox:


And he also manages to trick Bear in a take-my-place episode:


And if you're wondering about that word "goober" meaning "peanut," that is a Gullah word, which comes from the Kongo word nguba.

Virginia Schomp is a prolific children's book author, and she also wrote a book with 7 traditional African tales: The Ancient Africans.


Btoh books await you, just a click away at the Internet Archive.

by Virginia Schomp



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