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Books with author Slade Morrison

  • The Bluest Eye

    Morrison

    Paperback (Pocket, March 1, 1991)
    An impoverished black girl relates the struggles which attended her growth to maturity in rural Ohio
  • Poppy or the Snake?

    Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison

    Hardcover (Scribner, Dec. 23, 2003)
    In this clever riff on Aesop, Poppy feels guilty when he accidentally drives over Snake, and he decides to risk being bitten in order to free the sassy reptile. But smake wants more. This is a sly tale about who gets the last laugh. We, the creators of Who's Got Game? were inspired by the wonder of Aesop's Fables -- their vitality, their endless demand for more interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralisitic endings reimagined; the victim might not lose; the timid gets a chance to become strong; the fool can gain insight; the powerful may lose their grip. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. More than a play on these beloved fables, Who's Got Game? is AESOP LIVE!
  • Poppy or the Snake?

    Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison

    Paperback (Scribner, June 14, 2014)
    In this clever riff on Aesop, Poppy feels guilty when he accidentally drives over Snake, and he decides to risk being bitten in order to free the sassy reptile. But smake wants more. This is a sly tale about who gets the last laugh. We, the creators of Who's Got Game? were inspired by the wonder of Aesop's Fables -- their vitality, their endless demand for more interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralisitic endings reimagined; the victim might not lose; the timid gets a chance to become strong; the fool can gain insight; the powerful may lose their grip. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. More than a play on these beloved fables, Who's Got Game? is AESOP LIVE!
  • Who's Got Game?: The Ant or the Grasshopper?, The Lion or the Mouse?, Poppy or the Snake?

    Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison

    Audio CD (Simon & Schuster Audio, Jan. 30, 2007)
    Generation after generation, classic fables, folklore, and myth remain popular because they quicken the imagination of listeners of all ages. We, the creators of Who's Got Game?, were inspired by the wonder of Aaesop's fables -- their vitality, their endless demand for new interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralistic endings re-imagined: the victim might not lose; the timid get a chance to become strong; the fool can gain insight; the powerful may lose their grip. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. More than a play on these beloved fables, Who's Got Game? is AESOP LIVE!
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  • Little Cloud and Lady Wind by Morrison, Toni, Morrison, Slade

    Slade Morrison, Toni, Morrison

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, March 15, 1800)
    Little Cloud and Lady Wind by Morrison, Toni, Morrison, Slade [Simon & Schust...
  • Tar Baby

    Morrison

    Paperback (Pearson, Feb. 11, 1998)
    A magnificent novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved. Morrison probes deeply and sensitively into the realtionships between blacks and whites, blacks and blacks, and women and men, in this raw, emotionally intense narrative set in a rainforest paradise.
  • The Lion or the Mouse?

    Toni Morrison;Slade Morrison

    Hardcover (Scribner, March 15, 1748)
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  • Grannie Grumpsie and Bryan

    Sam Morrison

    eBook
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  • Somebody's Horse

    Morrison

    Hardcover (Atheneum, Oct. 1, 1986)
    Jenny's good care transforms a pathetic, sick, and abandoned horse into a splendid jumper, but there remains the question of who the real owner is.
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  • A Generic Witch Tale

    A.S. Morrison

    (Independently published, Oct. 11, 2017)
    A little witch named Fira accidentally messes up a coming of age ceremony and finds herself far away from home in a strange land where nobody has magic. With the help of a boy named Willy, she will try to find her way home. On her journey she discovers that there's something sinister hiding in this non-magical land, and it takes an interest in the little witch.
  • The Adventures of a Boy Reporter

    H S Morrison

    Hardcover (H.M. Caldwell, March 15, 1900)
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