Little man, little man : a story of childhood
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Author
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Contributors
Cazac, Yoran, illustrator.
Boggs, Nicholas, 1973- editor.
Brody, Jennifer DeVere, editor.
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xxi, 98 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Status
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Main Library - Adult
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Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Language
English
UPC
40028608008

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Includes bibliographical references.
Description
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.

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African American children -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.
Fiction.
Neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York.
Other Subjects
African American boys -- Fiction.
African American children -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Neighborhoods -- Fiction.