"I was delighted when grown ups requested my stories." She later became a schoolteacher, but eighteen years later she returned to storytelling full-time. "There was always an audience to listen to my original stories at school or in the cotton fields," McGill recalled on her Web site. Her talent for telling tales was evident in childhood, as one of eight siblings growing up in a small farming village in rural North Carolina. SidelightsĪlice McGill began her creative life as a storyteller. Way up and over Everything, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2005. Sure as Sunrise: Stories of Bruh Rabbit and His Walkin' Talkin' Friends, illustrated by Don Tate, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA) 2004.
Here We Go Round, illustrated by Shane Evans, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2002. In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave Lullabies (includes compact disc of McGill singing the lullabies), illustrated by Michael Cummings, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2000. Miles' Song, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2000. Soentpiet, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1999. Flying Africans (audio recording) Earwig (Chicago, IL), 1988.
0 kommentar(er)
