All Night, All Day A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals

by Bryan, Ashley; Bryan, Ashley; Thomas, David Manning

• ISBN13: 9780689316623
• ISBN10: 0689316623
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-03-30
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Summary

Raise your voice with this musical illustrated songbook of traditional African American spirituals including instructions for piano accompaniment and guitar chords.

Many songs performed at churches, schools, camps, or clubs are African American spirituals. This lively and inspirational picture book shines a light on twenty of the thousand songs that have been collected since the Civil War, including “All Night, All Day,” “This Little Light of Mine,” “When the Saints Go Marching In,” and “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.”

Author Biography

Ashley Bryan was born in New York City and educated at the Cooper Union Art School and Columbia University. He has lived in France and Germany and has traveled in England, Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia, Greece, Israel, Kenya, and Uganda. For many years, he taught art at Dartmouth College, but now he paints and writes and illustrates books at his home in Maine most of the year.

Mr. Bryan has compiled, written, and illustrated many books for Atheneum, including The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales; Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum (Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration); The Cat's Purr (ALA Notable Children's Book); Lion and the Ostrich Chicks (Coretta Scott King Honor Book); Walk Together Children: Black American Spirituals (ALA Notable Children's Book); and I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals, Vol. Two. His most recent book is Turtle Knows Your Name, published by Atheneum in 1989.

Table of Contents

Contents

All Night, All Day
Chatter with the Angels
Who's That a-Comin' Over Yonder
Somebody's Knocking at Your Door
This Little Light of Mine
Behold That Star
I'm a-Going to Eat at the Welcome Table
O When the Saints Go Marching In
I Stood on the River of Jordan
Get on Board
Peter, Go Ring the Bells
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
Wade in the Water
There's No Hiding Place
The Rocks and the Mountains
I'm Gonna Sing
Open the Window, Noah
O Won't You Sit Down
Now Let Me Fly
Great Big Stars
A Note on the Spirituals