Parents and children who share this book may wish to begin their own brand of family storytelling. Soman's lively, warm watercolors alternate between the bedtime rituals of the girl and her mother, and the loving vignettes from ``Mama's'' childhood. AWARDS, HONORS: Best Books, School Library Journal, 1989, for Tell Me a Story, Mama Ezra Jack Keats New.

'' Johnson captures perfectly the way children make stories they love their own. MEMBER: Authors Guild, Authors League of America. '' ``You were lucky, too, Mama.'' `` Yes, I was. About the author: Angela Johnson was born on June 18, 1961, in Tuskegee. The girl is curious about the love between generations: ``Did Grandmama squeeze you tight when you were her little girl, like she does me?'' `` Uh-huh. Angela Johnson An author study by Becky Laney Texas Womans University. You weren't afraid of her, though.'' `` No sir, I was not, '' is Mama's firm answer. : Tell Me a Story, Mama (9780606288972) by Johnson, Angela and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. About the story of a neighborhood woman who used to scare Mama (as a girl) and her sister, the daughter says, ``She was so mean that she used to holler out her window at you and Aunt Jessie when you passed her house every morning. Mama's memories of her own childhood have been told to her daughter so many times that the girl has made them her own bedtime litany she tells her mother the stories and her mother reassures her that she has the story right.

Tell me a story mama by angela johnson