Weiner, Sandra

It's Wings That Make Birds Fly: The Story of a Boy

NY: Pantheon, 1968. Hard Cover. Cloth, 55 pps. Illustrarted with black and white photos by the author. Touching extended essay, written in the first person, about a 10 year old black boy growing up in an urban minority ghetto. Weiner's striking black and white photos compliment the text. In a brief afterword, the author informs her readers that shortly after the story was written, the boy whose life it portrays was killed in an accident while playing in the street. Very good in edgeworn dust jacket with some staining. / Yes. Item #E5229

Price: $12.00