Virtual Tour - Humanities Room Arna Wendell Bontemps authored and co-authored eight published works for children. Two others, The Paste Board Bandit and Bubba Goes to Heaven, have been published posthumously in the late 1990's. Bontemps children's books utilize themes from African American folk culture, including the tradition of the tall tale. His first children's book, Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti (1931) and The Paste Board Bandit (1998) were written with his dearest friend and Harlem Renaissance colleague, Langston Hughes. In collaboration with Jack Conroy, he co-authored The Fast Sooner Hound (1942), Slappy Hooper, The Wonderful Sam Painter (1947) and Sam Patch, the High Wide and Handsome Lumper (1951). Bontemps authored books, which mirrored the changing image of the African-American character in juvenile literature, including You Can't Pet a Possum (1934), Sad Faced Boy (1937), Lonesome Boy (1955), and Mr. Kelso's Lion (1970). To view the Virtual Tour - Humanities Room, Click Here! |
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