ABSTRACT
“African-American children enjoy stories that portray and reveal their childhood feelings about wanting to be loved and cared for, their fears and insecurities, their wishes, struggles and triumphs within their familiar communities lived in by people resembling the real people they know; Moms, Dads, Aunts and Uncles, School Teachers and Sunday School Teachers and Storekeepers and other people who live in their worlds and matter to them. They also enjoy the comic and the ridiculous, showing animals behaving like unruly children.
