Cat and Rat are friends, but when Rat tricks Cat and plays the cat drum, which only cats may play, Cat ends up swallowing the drum, and that is how he got his purr.

The cat's purr

Ashley Bryan

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School P

What simpler way could there be to express to children the beauty and the harmony in the world around them than through the lyrics of this song by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele, made famous by the great Louis Armstrong? And what better visual accompaniment than the bright colorful artwork by award-winning Ashley Bryan depicting children of many backgrounds (and Louis Armstrong himself) performing a puppet show that brings the lyrics to life. Here is a book of brightness, wonder, and hope to be shared by all.

What a Wonderful World

Children's Books

Bob Thiele

George David Weiss

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Lion and the Ostrich Chicks

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harcourt, Brace, & Company

Beat the Story-Drum Pum-Pum

HARCOURT, BRACE

Sing to the Sun

Bt Bound

Includes a variety of folktales along with "Beautiful Blackbird," a story of the Ila people, in which the colorful birds of Africa ask Blackbird, whom they think is the most beautiful of birds, to decorate them with some of his "blackening brew."

Ashley Bryan's Beautiful Blackbird and Other Folktales

Literature & Fiction

Audio Bookshelf

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Books by Ashley Bryan