Wiley And The Hairy Man: Ready-To-Read Level2 (Paper) [Paperback]

Molly Bang (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1996 | Age Level: 4 and up | Series: Ready-To-Read:

In this adaptation of a Southern folktale, a young Bayou boy plays David to aGoliath of a scary creature who threatens all who come to his swampy home.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Aladdin (August 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 068981142X
• ISBN-13: 978-0689811425
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,180,295 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Molly Bang is an award winning children's book illustrator and author. Her
works include 3 Caldecott Honor Books: Ten, Nine, Eight, The Grey Lady and the
Strawberry Snatcher, and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry, which
also won a Jane Addams Honor Award and the Arbuthnot Award. The Paper Crane
won the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award in 1987; Goose won the School of Library
Journal Best Book of 1996 and another work, Common Ground: The Water, Earth,
and Air We Share, won the prestigious Giverny Book Award in 1998 for the best
children's science picture book. Her latest book, My Light, is an ALA Notable
book.

Her only work for adults is Picture This, which shows how an understanding of
the most basic principles enable a person to build powerful pictures. It is
used by art and graphic departments in colleges around the country.

Bang received her bachelor degree from Wellesley in French, and Masters in
Far Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona and at Harvard. She has also
worked as a reporter; as an educator for public health projects in Bangladesh
and in Mali, West Africa, incorporating information on maternal and child
health into stories; and as a teacher in colleges.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Molly Bang is amazingly in touch with southern magical mojo, May 12, 2000

By 

Jennifer Moss (Tallahassee, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wiley And The Hairy Man: Ready-To-Read Level2 (Paper) (Paperback)

The only reason I give this book 4 stars instead of 5 is because the quality of the illustration reproduction could be higher (the illustrations being excellent in themselves). If you have ever lived in the deep south, you may have experienced some feeling of magic in the air, some feeling of ancient strength or knowledge that is just beyond the bayou. Molly Bang has tapped into this with a powerful mythical story of survival within the mojo filled natural world. (similar in flavor to the Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher). She has also told the tale of a very strong woman and child who overcome a force (the Hairy Man) who threatens them. We have two children, age 2.5 and 9 who both enjoy this story.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wise little Wiley, June 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Wiley and the Hairy Man (Ready-to-Read) (Hardcover)

One of the best retellings of this classic African-American tale, where little Wiley, with the help of his mother, outsmarts a conjure man who wants to eat him!

5.0 out of 5 stars my son's favorite, April 2, 2011

By 

Kathleen Cernak "clayographer" (Upstate, New York) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Wiley and the Hairy Man: Adapted from an American Folk Tale (Ready-to-Read) (Hardcover)

Every week when my 5 year old son and I would go to the public library, he would take out this book. He would make me read it over and over. He is now 24, and I found this book with the same cover, so I bought it to give to him when he has a child to read to.