Ashley Bryan uses painting, poetry, music, collage, and prose to tell his stories. Bryan is known for retelling African folktales in a distinct, rhythmic prose that is heavily influenced by African-American poetry. Watch the interview to learn more about him and read a short biography about his life. Includes an interview transcript and a selected list of his books.

Concepts

children's literature, african folktales

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Additional Tags

children's author, children's illustrator, ashey bryan, reading rockets, children's book illustrator, elementary authors a - c

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

W.K.7