![]() ![]() His devoted uncle, who was at the time living in the village of Saint Paul-de-Vence in the south of France, complied, creating a picture book that the author described as “a celebration of the self-esteem of black children.” The story came to be after Karefa begged Baldwin (who often visited and entertained his illustrious coterie of colleagues and friends in his extended family’s brownstone) to write a children’s book about him. It is fitting that Baldwin’s nephew and niece, children of his sister Gloria, contributed to the new edition of Little Man, Little Man, since their childhood on Manhattan’s Upper West Side inspired the book. ![]() His picture book Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood, published by Dial Press in 1976, did not stay in print long, but will return to bookstore shelves next August, when Duke University Press reissues the title with the original illustrations by the Parisian artist Yoran Cazac an introduction by the edition’s coeditors, Baldwin scholars Nicholas Boggs and Jennifer DeVere Brody a foreword by Baldwin’s nephew, Tejan “TJ” Karefa and an afterword by Aisha Karefa-Smart, the author’s niece and Karefa’s older sister. James Baldwin (1924–1987), renowned African-American novelist, playwright, essayist, critic, and civil rights activist, has many published works to his credit, only one of which was written for children. ![]()
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