books by Dubose Heyward

books by Dubose Heyward

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Dubose Heyward

Dubose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, ...

Aladdin, 2002

hauntingly evocative of summertime in the south
I have always loved the song "Summertime," which my mother used to sing to my family when I was growing up. This book adds new layers of meaning to the song, with gorgeous illustrations depicting an African-American family living in the South. This is currently one ...

Porgy

DuBose Heyward

University Press of Mississippi, 2001

Porgy
Great! It was a tremendous aid in my preparation for a role in Porgy & Bess!

Mamba's Daughters: A Novel of Charleston (Southern Classics Series)
DuBose Heyward

University of South Carolina Press, 1995

1929. Heyward's first novel Porgy was an immediate success. He started his literary career with short stories of Negro life in his native South and his novel Mamba's Daughters returns to that theme. The book begins: It was no mere chance that, during the first decade of the new century, brought Mamba out of the darkness of the underworld into the ...

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (Sandpiper Books)

Dubose Heyward

Houghton Mifflin, 1974

A CLASSIC THAT SHOULD NOT BE LOST
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by DuBose Heyward and illustrated by Marjorie Hack has been around for yours. In fact, it made its first appearance in 1939 and has gone through several printings since that time. The latest one I could find was 1974, which ...