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Ashley Bryan grew up to the sound of his mother singing from morning to night, and he has shared the joy of song with children ever since. A beloved illustrator, he has been the recipient of the Coretta Scott King—Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award; he has also been a May Hill Arbuthnot lecturer, a Coretta Scott King Award winner, and the recipient of countless other awards and recognitions. He lives in Islesford, one of the Cranberry Isles off the coast of Maine, where he can often be found with a cluster of children, all singing.

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Ashley Bryan's Books

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Can't Scare Me!
Can't Scare Me! By: Ashley Bryan
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: September 3, 2013
Ages: 4 - 8
From celebrated legend Ashley Bryan, a lavishly depicted cautionary tale of fearlessness and many-headed monsters.There was a little boy who knew no fear... Nope, no fear at all. Not even when his grandma warns him of the...
Other Formats: eBook
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Who Built the Stable?
Who Built the Stable? A Nativity Poem By: Ashley Bryan
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: October 2, 2012
Ages: 4 - 8
Who built the stable where Jesus lay? Multiple Coretta Scott King Award–winner Ashley Bryan has a very good idea in this beautiful and moving new layer to the nativity story.Riding in an open Jeep across the plains of...
Other Formats: eBook
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All Things Bright and Beautiful
All Things Bright and Beautiful By: Cecil F. Alexander
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
Ages: 2 - 5
All things bright and beautiful; all creatures great and small; all things wise and wonderful, the incredible Ashley Bryan illustrates them all!
Other Formats: eBook
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Ashley Bryan
Ashley Bryan Words to My Life's Song By: Ashley Bryan
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan / Photographer: Bill McGuinness
This edition: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ashley's autobiography is full of art, photographs, and the poignant never-say-never tale of his rich life, a life that has always included drawing and painting. Even as a boy growing up during the Depression, he painted --...
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Let it Shine
Let it Shine Let it Shine By: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 9, 2007
Ages: 4 - 8
This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. With a kaleidoscope of color and cut paper, Hans Christian Anderson Award nominee and two-time Coretta Scott King Award...
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Beautiful Blackbird
Beautiful Blackbird By: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2003
Ages: 3 - 7
Black is beautiful, uh-huh! Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in the forest. The other birds, who were colored red, yellow, blue, and green, were so envious that they begged Blackbird to paint their...
Other Formats: eBook
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The Night Has Ears
The Night Has Ears African Proverbs By: Ashley Bryan
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: October 1, 1999
Ages: 4 - 8
Ashley Bryan says, "My mother had a proverb for any situation, attitude, or event." Many of us have had the same experience. But have you ever heard, "As a crab walks, so walk its children" or "A log may lie in the water for...
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Ashley Bryan's African Tales, Uh-Huh
Ashley Bryan's African Tales, Uh-Huh By: Ashley Bryan
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publication date: October 1, 1998
Ages: 8 - 12
Come gather round, young and old, and hear these stories from Africa, retold and illustrated by the incomparable Ashley Bryan. The fourteen stories in this collection are some of his favorites, previously published in The Ox...
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Carol of the Brown King
Carol of the Brown King Nativity Poems By: Langston Hughes
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: October 1, 1998
Ages: 4 - 8
The wonder of Christmas never ceases. Each year the holiday comes and its story seems fresh and new. The ways of telling about the very first Christmas are as many and as varied as the stars in the sky. And so it was for...
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Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry
Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry By: Ashley Bryan
Illustrated by: Ashley Bryan
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: August 1, 1997
Ages: 4 - 8
Why an alphabet book of African American poets? Simply as a way of presenting the work of many poets, poets who write for adults as well as children, in a form that both children and adults can enjoy. Though this is not an...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback