children's folk tale or story
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FROM: "Shepard, Judy" <[removed]@apls.state.al.us>
REC'D: 12/4/03, 3:19 PM
Judy Shepard
Head, Information Services
Alabama Public Library Service
6030 Monticello Drive
Montgomery AL 36130
(334) 213-3909 (voice)
(800) 723-8459 (voice within Alabama)
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FROM: Spencer Ms Martha <[removed]@usmc-mccs.org>
REC'D: 12/4/03, 3:29 PM
Martha
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From: Shepard, Judy [[removed]@apls.state.al.us]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:13 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: children's folk tale or story
We are looking for a story or book about a little Black Boy that was
published, I would say, sometime between 1890-1950 and the title and boy's
name is Epandimous or Epodimous--can anyone give me the correct spelling?
Thank you!
Judy Shepard
Head, Information Services
Alabama Public Library Service
6030 Monticello Drive
Montgomery AL 36130
(334) 213-3909 (voice)
(800) 723-8459 (voice within Alabama)
(334) 213-3960/3961 (FAX)
FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 12/4/03, 3:39 PM
Cut and pasted from the Archives of the Stumpers list:
The original story was by Sara Cone Bryant; I believe the
original title was _Epaminondas and His Auntie_ but could not
verify this. For some time the popular version was one by
Constance Egan in which Epaminondas was drawn as coal-black and
in a style that has since been criticized as perpetuating racial
stereotypes. (I haven't seen the Bryant original, but it may
carry the same baggage.) There is a more modern version, Eve
Merriam's _Epaminondas_ (1968), illustrated by Trina Schart
Hyman, which not only changes the skin color from black to a
vague beige, but also replaces the spanking at the end with
understanding and a kiss.
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and
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At 08:11 AM 2/10/01 -0800, Sue Kamm wrote: [removed]@juno.com wrote: >> >>
Hi, >> >> Thanks for the correct spelling from Jane and Ellen. >> Barbara
Jorgenson (thanks too) also passed along this web site which >> tells the
story: >> http://www.rickwalton.com/folktale/bryant18.htm >> Looks like the
correct title is "The Story of Epaminondas and His Auntie" >> >> Thanks so
much for the quick responses, I am tickled to read this story >> again!
The original story, by Sara Cone Bryant, appeared in her STORIES TO TELL TO
CHILDREN: FIFTY-ONE STORIES WITH SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR TELLING. This
collection is also available free online via the On-Line Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The text (from U of Virginia) does not include ToC listings for the
individual 51 stories, but you can bring it up and search for "Auntie" with
the "find" command of your browser to get quickly to it; alternatively,
it's about one-third of the way through the text (pages 63-68 of original).
Most recent (I think) version in "real" print is THAT NOODLE-HEAD
EPAMINONDAS, "retold by" Eve Merriam (Scholastic, 1968).
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
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Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: "Lynn S. Smith-Roberts" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 12/6/03, 11:38 AM
I think you must be looking for Epaminondas. The book we have is retold by
Eve Merriam. We also have Epaminondas and his auntie by Sara Cone Bryand.
Lynn S. Smith-Roberts
Librarian II
Carmichael Regional Library
Sacramento Public Library
[removed]@saclibrary.net
[removed]@hotmail.com
Subject: children's folk tale or story
From: "Shepard, Judy" <[removed]@apls.state.al.us>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:13:01 -0600
We are looking for a story or book about a little Black Boy that was
published, I would say, sometime between 1890-1950 and the title and boy's
name is Epandimous or Epodimous--can anyone give me the correct spelling?
Thank you!
Judy Shepard
Head, Information Services
Alabama Public Library Service
6030 Monticello Drive
Montgomery AL 36130
(334) 213-3909 (voice)
(800) 723-8459 (voice within Alabama)
(334) 213-3960/3961 (FAX)
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