Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 4

It's Saturday again already, and the final Saturday of Black History Month... but of course I'll be carrying on with the African Diaspora books at the Internet Archive beyond February: there are still so many wonderful books to share! Meanwhile, you can see previous posts here: February 2022, and here are the earlier African posts: May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022.

I also updated the African Diaspora spreadsheet this week too: there are now over 3000 items indexed there!

And now... here are this week's books:

Jamaica Anansi Stories

by Martha Beckwith

Tiny Tales of Anansi

by Laura Gibbs

Spiderman Anancy

by James Berry

 First Palm Trees:

An Anancy Spiderman Story

by James Berry

A Nest Full of Stars

by James Berry

 Listen to This Story:

Tales from the West Indies

by Grace Hallworth

Cric Crac:

A Collection of West Indian Stories

by Grace Hallworth

Sing Me a Story!

Song and Dance Stories from the Caribbean

by Grace Hallworth

Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans

by Daryl Cumber Dance

Dictionary of Jamaican English

by Frederic Cassidy and R. B. Le Page

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 3

Saturday means it's time for the weekly wrap-up post, and you can see previous posts here: February 2022. Plus here are the earlier African posts: May 2021 - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - January 2022.

I also updated the African Diaspora spreadsheet this week too.

And below are this week's books:

The Headless Haunt and

Other African-American Ghost Stories 

by James Haskins 

Moaning Bones:

African-American Ghost Stories

by James Haskins

The Dark-Thirty:

Southern Tales of the Supernatural

by Pat McKissack

Tailypo: A Newfangled Tall Tale

by Angela Shelf Medearis

The Dark Way:

Stories from the Spirit World

by Virginia Hamilton

Dog Ghosts and the Word on the Brazos

by John Mason Brewer

African-American Proverbs in Context

by Anand Prahlad

 African American Folklore:

An Encyclopedia for Students

edited by Anand Prahlad

The Greenwood Encyclopedia

of African American Folklore

edited by Anand Prahlad

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 2

So it's Saturday, which means wrapping up the week of books: this was the second week of African Diaspora folktale books at the Internet Archive! You can see the round-up from the first week here: Week 1 of African Diaspora Folktales.

I also got the African Diaspora Spreadsheet up and running! :-)

All this work depends on Controlled Digital Lending from the Internet Archive... a project that the big publishers are trying to shut down. If you haven't read about the lawsuit, here's a great piece that Chris Freeland wrote about it: Librarian's lament: Digital books are not fireproof. Chris's piece also got some coverage at TechDirt: Penguin Random House Demands Removal Of Maus From Digital Library Because The Book Is Popular Again.

And here are these week's books: enjoy!

Climbing Jacob's Ladder:

Heroes of the Bible

in African-American Spirituals

by Ashley Bryan

Walk Together Children:

Black American Spirituals

by Ashley Bryan

I'm Going to Sing:

Black American Spirituals

by Ashley Bryan

All Night, All Day:

A Child's First Book

of African-American Spirituals

by Ashley Bryan

Candle-Lighting Time in Bodidalee

by Julian Bagley

Every Tongue Got to Confess:

Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States

by Zora Neale Hurston

Affrilachian Tales:

Folktales From the African-American

Appalachian Tradition

by Lyn Ford

Beyond the Briar Patch:

Affrilachian Folktales, Food, and Folklore

by Lyn Ford

The Book of Negro Folklore

 by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps

Diaspora Folktales at Internet Archive: Week 1

So this is the first weekly round-up for the Diaspora project! Meanwhile, you can see the past round-ups for the African folktale books too.

Here are the books that I featured this week, linked to their blog posts... and I'll be back with more books for Week 2 starting tomorrow. Happy Weekend, everybody!

A Ring of Tricksters:

Animal Tales from

America, the West Indies, and Africa

by Virginia Hamilton

African American Folktales:

Stories from Black Traditions in the New World

by Roger Abrahams

Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales

by Julius Lester

John Henry

by Julius Lester

American Negro Folklore

by John Mason Brewer

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

by Virginia Hamilton

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book

by Virginia Hamilton