Susan talks with children's author Virginia Hamilton about the folktales in "Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales" (1995,The Blue Sky Press/Scholastic). These stories are adaptations of folktales told by women. Hamilton grew up in Yellow Springs, Ohio in a large, extended family - a family of storytellers. She says it was the way she learned about family tradition and about her cultural heritage. Hamilton's most recent book is "When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing" (1996, Blue Sky Press/Scholastic).
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