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Too Tall for Truth: Tall Tales - John Henry by Julius Lester
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Too Tall for Truth: Tall Tales - John Henry by Julius Lester

An authentic, engaging voice mingles fantasy with reality.

Pinkney’s vivid artwork combines with Lester’s picturesque text to make the telling of the story every bit as “larger than life” as the subject of the story. Lester fills his pages with word pictures, “bat wings on tombstones” and personification, the sun flossing, the wind out of breath. Yet...

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