Listen to the music at (tarabooks.com/brer-rabbit-music)

The Brer Rabbit stories were originally oral tales told by slaves from the American South. In this powerful rendering for children and adults, writer and griot Arthur Flowers re-tells them as wisdom tales for a contemporary audience, bringing them back to us as one of the sturdy roots of African-American literature. He connects the spoken and written words in surprising ways in the book, and in a musical spoken word performance in collaboration with a group of young Indian musicians. This genre defying cross-media project pushes the boundaries of narrative art – inviting the reader (and listener) to explore through sight and sound, text and imagination.