Tar Baby, casually published in 1877, found Joel Chandler Harris his vocation. The book was to become an American classic and Harris was to become a key figure in the development of black literature.
Now republished and repackaged by Creation Books, Tar Baby transports the reader to the Georgia swamplands and plantations, and the pre-Looney Toons world inhabited by sassy, talking beasts. Here, Brer Rabbit is the wily hero - duelling both verbally and physically with those who would eat him - and perpetually in the monstrous shadow of the Tar Baby.
Tar Baby, in its original African-American dialect, is a collection of some of the finest of these colloquial tales which frequently verge on the surreal and the grotesque. It is presented as a classic of American literature for both adult readers and children of all ages.
