southern sandpiper daughters summertime

books:

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (Sandpiper Books)

42 reviews
Dubose Heyward

Houghton Mifflin, 1939

Absolutely the Best!
I found this book in the attic of our old apartment, before I could even read English. I fell in love with the book then, because I guided myself through the book's gorgeous illustrations. When I finally did learn to read in English, it was even more magical. I carried this book (torn pages and all) for 13 years everywhere I moved until one day, I spotted the bookcover's color out of the ...

Peter Ashley
Dubose Heyward

The History Press, 2004

Set in Charleston on the eve of South Carolina's secession from the Union, DuBose Heyward's Peter Ashley weaves together fact and fiction in one of the first historical novels of its kind. A departure from Heyward's focus on African American and Gullah culture, Peter Ashley explores war, class and Southern society. Peter is a young man, just returned from Oxford, who questions Southern ideals and values as he fights to pursue a literary ...

Summertime

5 reviews
Dubose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, ...

Aladdin, 2002

hauntingly evocative of summertime in the south
I have always loved the song "Summertime," which my mother used to sing to my family when I was growing up. This book adds new layers of meaning to the song, with gorgeous illustrations depicting an African-American family living in the South. This is currently one of my thirteen-month-old daughter's top three favorite books, although it is not intended for her age group. She responds ...

Skylines and Horizons
DuBose HEYWARD

Macmillan, 1924

Porgy:
DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1990

Mamba's Daughters: A Novel of Charleston (Southern Classics Series)
DuBose Heyward

University of South Carolina Press, 1995

1929. Heyward's first novel Porgy was an immediate success. He started his literary career with short stories of Negro life in his native South and his novel Mamba's Daughters returns to that theme. The book begins: It was no mere chance that, during the first decade of the new century, brought Mamba out of the darkness of the underworld into the light of the Wentworths' kitchen. Casual as that event seemed, there is good evidence for the belief ...

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes

3 reviews
Dubose Heyward

Houghton Mifflin, 1999

The best easter book ever!
This was my absolute favorite book as a child! It's really one of the only ones I remember besides my Mother Goose book. I bought it for my step-daughter and she loved it as well. It's such a sweet book with pictures that will stay in a child's memory forever.