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Hush, Child! Can't You Hear the Music?

Rose Thompson author Charles Beaumont editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Published:1st Apr '99

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Hush, Child! Can't You Hear the Music? cover

Hush, Child! Can’t You Hear the Music? is a remarkable collection of black folktales and photographs from rural Georgia. During the 1930s and 1940s Rose Thompson worked as a home supervisor with the Farm Security Administration in middle Georgia. While she worked with farmers and their wives—teaching them to put up preserves, make cotton mattresses, and build chick brooders—she listened to the stories they told. Reading Hush, Child! Can’t You Hear the Music? is like spending an afternoon reminiscing on the front porch. The book is illustrated with photographs taken by Thompson and WPA photographer Jack Delano.

An artful celebration of lyrical folktales and remembrances of rural time past. This book is a visit home.


The gentle warmth of this little treasury will caress your heart like a visit from an old friend.

ISBN: 9780820321370

Dimensions: 203mm x 152mm x 10mm

Weight: 191g

128 pages