Title In the hollow of your hand : slave lullabies / collected by Alice McGill ; pictures by Michael Cummings.

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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 781.582 MCGILL	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department	J 811.008 MCGILL	Check Shelf
Portland Public Library - Children's Department	J 808.008 MCG	Check Shelf
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department	JUV. 811.008 M145I	Check Shelf

Description	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm. + 1 sound disk (4 3/4in.)
Summary	A collection of lullabies orally transmitted by African-American slaves revealing their hardships and sorrows as well as soothing notes of well-being and belief in a better time to come.
Contents	Sumtimes I rocks my baby -- Lil' girl sittin' in de briar bush -- Every little bit -- Go to sleepy -- Dip-dap dudio -- Watch and pray -- Rock de cradle, Joe -- Who dat tappin' -- Dese lil' toes -- Liddy lay low -- Great big dog -- Big-eyed baby -- Hush-a little baby.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.6 0.5 43613.
Subject	African Americans -- Juvenile poetry.
	Slavery -- Poetry.
	American poetry -- African American authors.
	Lullabies, English -- United States -- African American authors.
	Slavery in literature -- Juvenile literature.
	Children's poetry, American -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Juvenile literature.
	Sleep -- Juvenile poetry.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form	Juvenile materials.
Subject	Lullabies, English -- United States -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Juvenile literature.
	Mother and child -- Poetry.
	Enslaved persons -- United States -- Intellectual life -- Juvenile literature.
	Mother and child -- Juvenile poetry.
	Lullabies.
	Sleep -- Poetry.
	African Americans -- Poetry.
	Children's poetry, American -- African American authors.
Added Author	Cummings, Michael, 1945- illustrator.
ISBN	0395857554

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