From: Jeffrey Canton <jeffrey_canton>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:17:21 -0800 (PST)

Thanks for your moving post, Eliza. I am wondering, as I am sure other CCBCers are as well, if it possible to get a copy of this speech. It sounds wonderful -- but then that was Virginia Hamilton, wasn't it? I have been reading her folktales among them the stunning The Girl Who Spun Gold and The People Who Could Fly and marvel at the nuances of her phrasing, the marvelous way she used language and the dignity that was part and parcel of everything that she wrote. Her contribution to folklore is immense -- as immense, of course, as her contributions to celebrating the life of African Americans, young adult ficiton and fiction for younger readers too. It is a blessing that we have her books as a rich and vibrant legacy that will gladly keep her alive with us despite her death.

Jeffrey Canton Toronto

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Received on Fri 01 Mar 2002 07:17:21 PM CST