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Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood
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Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood Hardback - 2018

by James Baldwin; Nicholas Boggs (Editor); Jennifer DeVere Brody (Editor)

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Now available for the first time in nearly 40 years. Baldwin's only children's book follows the day-to-day life of four-year-old TJ and his friends in their Harlem neighborhood as they encounter the social realities of being black in America in the 1970s. Full color.

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Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book, Little Man, Little Man celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood.

Now available for the first time in forty years, this new edition of Little Man, Little Man--which retains the charming original illustrations by French artist Yoran Cazac--includes a foreword by Baldwin's nephew Tejan "TJ" Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his niece Aisha Karefa-Smart, with an introduction by two Baldwin scholars. In it we not only see life in 1970s Harlem from a black child's perspective, but we also gain a fuller appreciation of the genius of one of America's greatest writers.

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  • Title Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood
  • Author James Baldwin; Nicholas Boggs (Editor); Jennifer DeVere Brody (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 120
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Publication date 2018-08-24
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781478000044 / 147800004X
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 7.5 x 0.7 in (25.15 x 19.05 x 1.78 cm)
  • Age range 09 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 4 - 7
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Friendship, Bildungsromans
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2018001470
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Horn Book Magazine, 11/01/2018, Page 112
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2019, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2018, Page 83
  • Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview, 08/15/2018, Page 45
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/18/2018, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 08/28/2018, Page 0

About the author

James Baldwin (1924-1987), the world-famous novelist, playwright, essayist, critic, and public intellectual, was the grandson of a slave. He grew up in Harlem and was the oldest of nine children. He spent three years while in his teens as a preacher and briefly worked on the New Jersey railroad. In the 1940s he met his mentor, painter Beauford Delaney, and moved to Greenwich Village. In 1948 he left the United States and moved to Paris. His first novel--Go Tell It on the Mountain--was published in 1953, and over the next ten years he wrote many essays and several of his best-known works, including Notes of a Native Son, Giovanni's Room, and The Fire Next Time. During the 1960s Baldwin split his time between Istanbul and the United States, where he was active in the civil rights movement. In 1971 he moved to Saint Paul-de-Vence, a village in the south of France. There he wrote, among other works, Little Man, Little Man, which he dedicated to Beauford Delaney; and the novel If Beale Street Could Talk, which he dedicated to Yoran Cazac.

Yoran Cazac (1938-2005) was a French artist who first gained attention for his abstract paintings in Paris in the 1960s. He moved to Rome, where he became the protg of the painter Balthus, director of the French Academy. Cazac met Baldwin in Paris in 1959 through their mutual friend, painter Beauford Delaney. They rekindled their friendship in the 1970s, when Baldwin asked Cazac to provide the illustrations for Little Man, Little Man. Baldwin contributed an essay for the catalog of Cazac's 1977 exhibition at the Chateau de Maintenon. Cazac's final solo exhibition was held at the Kiron Gallery in Paris in 2003.

Nicholas Boggs is Clinical Assistant Professor of English at New York University.

Jennifer DeVere Brody is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University.

Tejan Karefa-Smart, James Baldwin's nephew, is a photographer and digital media artist who lives in Paris, France.

Aisha Karefa-Smart, James Baldwin's niece, is an author who lives in Washington, D.C.

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