Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood, Hardcover

Contributor(s):

• Author: James Baldwin
• Editor: Nicholas Boggs
• Editor: Jennifer DeVere Brody

Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book, Little Man, Little Man celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood.

Now available for the first time in forty years, this new edition of Little Man, Little Man--which retains the charming original illustrations by French artist Yoran Cazac--includes a foreword by Baldwin's nephew Tejan "TJ" Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his niece Aisha Karefa-Smart, with an introduction by two Baldwin scholars. In it we not only see life in 1970s Harlem from a black child's perspective, but we also gain a fuller appreciation of the genius of one of America's greatest writers.
 
Review citations

• Horn Book Magazine - pg. 112 - 11/01/2018
• Publishers Weekly / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - 06/18/2018
• Publishers Weekly / Exceptional Presentation - 06/18/2018
• Publishers Weekly / Book Of Special Distinction - 06/18/2018
• Publishers Weekly / Top 15 Book Of The Year - 06/18/2018
• Publishers Weekly / Highly Recommended - 06/18/2018
• Kirkus Reviews / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 83 - 06/15/2018
• Kirkus Reviews / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 83 - 06/15/2018
• Kirkus Reviews / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 83 - 06/15/2018
• Kirkus Reviews / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 83 - 06/15/2018
• Kirkus Reviews / Highly Recommended - pg. 83 - 06/15/2018
• Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 45 - 08/15/2018
• Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 45 - 08/15/2018
• Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 45 - 08/15/2018
• Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 45 - 08/15/2018
• Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview / Highly Recommended - pg. 45 - 08/15/2018
• Shelf Awareness - 08/28/2018