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{{shortShort description|American children's writer and illustrator (1923–2022)}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name = Ashley Bryan
| image = Ashley Bryan 01.jpg
| alt = Ashley Bryan by Sue Hill of Winters Work Gift Shop, Islesford, Maine, 2007
| caption = Ashley Bryan in 2007
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|07|13|}}
| birth_place = [[Harlem, New York]] City, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|2|4|1923|7|13}}
| death_place = [[Sugar Land, Texas]], U.S.
| occupation = Writer, illustrator, teacher
| nationalityperiod = American1950–2020
| education = [[Cooper Union School of Art]]<br> [[Columbia University]]<br> [[Aix-Marseille University|University of Marseilles]]<br> [[University of Freiburg]]
| genre = [[Children's literature|children's]] [[picture books]]
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'''Ashley Frederick Bryan''' (July 13, 1923{{snd}}February 4, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Most of his subjects are from the [[African -American]] experience. He was U.S. nominee for the [[Hans Christian Andersen Award]] in 2006<ref name=ibby2006/> and he won the [[Laura Ingalls Wilder Award]] for his contribution to American children's literature in 2009.<ref name=wilder2009/> His picture book ''[[Freedom Over Me]]'' was short-listed for the 2016 Kirkus Prize and received a [[Newbery Medal|Newbery Honor]].
 
== Early years ==
 
===Childhood===
Ashley Frederick Bryan was born on July 13, 1923, in [[Harlem]] and raised in the [[Bronx]], (both in New York City).<ref name="nytobit">{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=February 9, 2022-02-09|title=Ashley Bryan, Who Brought Diversity to Children's Books, Dies at 98|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/books/ashley-bryan-dead.html|access-date=February 9, 2022-02-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> His father worked as a printer of greeting cards and loved birds., and Bryan onceremembered countedtheir aapartment hundredas cagedfull birdsof ina hishundred childhood homebirds.<ref name=about"nytobit"/><ref>{{cite web | title last1= Ashley F. BryanDlouhy |first1=Caitlyn publisher |title=Profile Answersof Corporation2009 |Wilder yearAward =winner 2009Ashley |Bryan |url = httphttps://www.answershbook.com/topicstory/ashleyprofile-fof-2009-wilder-award-winner-ashley-bryan | access-date work=[[The 2009-03-14}}</ref><refHorn name="GoldBook Interview">{{citeMagazine]] journal|last1access-date=Gold|first1=Donna|title=AshleyFebruary Bryan's10, World|journal=American2022 Vision|date=DecAugust 19973, – Jan 1998|volume=12|issue=6|page=312015}}</ref> He grewwas upborn withthe second of six brotherschildren and sistersgrew up andwith his three cousins. Bryan recallsrecalled his childhood in New York City during the 1930s as an idyllic time, full of art and music.<ref name=about"Gold Interview">{{cite journal|last1=Gold|first1=Donna|title=Ashley Bryan's World|journal=American Visions|date=Dec 1997 – Jan 1998|volume=12|issue=6|page=31|issn=0884-9390}}</ref> He learned to draw, paint, and play instruments at school from artists and musicians participating in the [[Works Progress Administration|Work Projects Administration]] program.<ref name = "Gold Interview"/> With books he checked out from the library, Bryan made his own, temporary collection at home. He particularly enjoyed poetry, folktales, and fairy tales; stories that could be told within a brief span of pages.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Marcus|first1=Leonard S.|title=Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book|date=2002|publisher=Dutton Children's Books|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-525-46490-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/waysoftellingfou00leon/page/18 18–31]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/waysoftellingfou00leon/page/18}}</ref>
 
===University studies and military service===
Bryan attended the [[Cooper Union]] Art School, the only African-American student at that time. He had applied to other schools who had rejected him on the basis of race, but Cooper Union administered its scholarships in a blind test.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Ashley Bryan Center {{!}}{{!}} Ashley's Timeline|url=https://ashleybryancenter.org/ashleys-timeline.html|access-date=2022-01-January 28, 2022|website=ashleybryancenter.org}}</ref>
 
At the age of nineteen, World War II interrupted his studies. He was [[Conscription in the United States|drafted]] into the U.S. Army and assigned to serve in a segregated unit as a member of a Port Battalion, landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day. He was so ill-suited to this work that his fellow soldiers often encouraged him to step aside and draw. He always kept a sketch pad in his gas mask.<ref name=":1" /> His book, Infinite Hope,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bryan |first=Ashley |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1097366206 |title=Infinite hope : a Black artist's journey from World War II to peace |date=2019 |isbn=978-1-5344-0490-8 |edition=First |location=New York |oclc=1097366206}}</ref> is an autobiographical journey during the war.
 
In 1946, he enrolled at [[Columbia University School of General Studies]] to study philosophy.<ref>{{Cite web|title="Make Me Brave for Life"|url=https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/make-me-brave-life|access-date=2022-01-January 21, 2022|website=Columbia Magazine|language=en}}</ref> After the war, Bryan received a [[Fulbright Scholarship]] to study at the [[University of Marseille]] at [[Aix-en-Provence]] and later returning for two years to study at the [[University of Freiburg]] in Germany.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://ashleybryancenter.org/index.html#timeline_header|title=Ashley Bryan Center {{!}}{{!}} Home|website=ashleybryancenter.org|access-date=2019-11-November 18, 2019}}</ref>
 
== CareerTeaching career ==
Bryan taught art at [[Queens College, City University of New York|Queen's College]], [[Philadelphia College of Art]], the [[Dalton School]], [[Lafayette College]], and [[Dartmouth College]]. He retired as emeritus professor of art at Dartmouth in 1988.{{CN|date<ref name=February"WashingtonPostObit"/><ref 2022}}name="PennStateBiblio"/>▼
 
▲Bryan taught art at [[Queens College, City University of New York|Queen's College]], Philadelphia College of Art, [[Lafayette College]], and [[Dartmouth College]]. He retired as emeritus professor of art at Dartmouth in 1988.{{CN|date=February 2022}}
 
==Retirement and death==
In the late 1980s, when Bryan retired from Dartmouth, he moved to [[Islesford, Maine]], on [[Little Cranberry Island]]. inHe lived there until he moved to [[MaineSugar Land, Texas]], where his niece lived, in 2019.{{CN|date<ref name=February"WashingtonPostObit"/><ref 2022}}name="nytobit"/>
 
The Ashley Bryan Center, (a 501c3) was formed in 2013 to preserve, protect and care for Bryan's art, his collections, his books and to promote his legacy. In 2019, the Center and [[University of Pennsylvania]] reached an agreement to archive Bryan's works at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts.<ref>{{CNCite web|url=https://bangordailynews.com/2019/02/02/arts-culture/collection-of-artifacts-by-maine-artist-finds-out-of-state-home/|title=Collection of artifacts by Maine artist finds out-of-state home|first=Bill|last=Trotter|date=February 20222, 2019|website=Bangor Daily News}}</ref>
 
Bryan died at the home of his niece's in [[Sugar Land, Texas]],home on February 4, 2022, at the age of 98.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bangordailynews.com/2022/02/05/news/hancock/maine-artist-and-book-illustrator-ashley-bryan-dies-at-the-age-of-98/|title=MaineHe artisthad and[[congestive bookheart illustratorfailure]].<ref Ashley Bryan dies at age 98|firstname=Bill|last=Trotter|date=February 5, 2022|website=Bangor Daily News}}<"nytobit"/ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ashley-bryan-prize-winning-childrens-author-illustrator-dies-98-rcna15058|title=Ashley Bryan, prize-winning children's author, illustrator, dies at 98|website=NBC News|date=February 6, 2022 }}</ref><ref name="nytobit"/>
 
==Awards and honors==
 
Bryan has received two [[American Library Association]] career literary awards for his "significant and lasting contributions", the 2009 Wilder Medal and the 2012 King–Hamilton Award. The [[Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal]] from the [[Association for Library Service to Children]] (ALSC) biennially recognizes one writer or illustrator of children's books published in the U.S. The committee named ''Dancing Granny'', ''Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum'', and ''Beautiful Blackbird'' in particular and cited his "varied art forms".<ref name=wilder2009/><ref name=wilder/> The Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award from the Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) biennially recognizes one African-American writer or illustrator of children's or [[young-adult literature]].<ref name=hamilton/><ref name=king/>
In 2008 Bryan was named a Literary Lion by The New York Public Library. In 2008, the [[Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History|Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American History and Culture]] housed in the [[Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System|Atlanta-Fulton Public Library]] hosted the "Ashley Bryan Children's Literary Festival."<ref>{{Cite journal|date=July 1, 2008-07-01|title=Atlanta-Fulton Hosts Children's Festival|url=https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/glq/vol45/iss2/22|journal=Georgia Library Quarterly|volume=45|issue=2|issn=2157-0396}}</ref> He also received the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion from the [[Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |title=Past Medallion Recipients |url=https://www.usm.edu/childrens-book-festival/past-medallion-recipients |publisher=[[University of Southern Mississippi]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801161445/https://www.usm.edu/childrens-book-festival/past-medallion-recipients|archivedate= August 1, 2016}}</ref>
 
For his lifetime work as a children's illustrator, Bryan was U.S. nominee in 2006 for the biennial, international [[Hans Christian Andersen Award]], the highest recognition for creators of children's books.<ref name=ibby2006/>
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The Ashley Bryan Art series was established at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center of the [[Broward County Library]] in 2002. Dr.[[Henrietta M. Smith]], Professor Emerita at the [[University of South Florida]] (USF) School of Information, worked with the Broward County Library to establish the children's book author and illustrator art series named for Ashley Bryan. Dr. Smith was also the lector for the 2003 [[Alice G. Smith Lecture]], a lecture series held at the USF School of Information "to honor the memory of its first director, Alice Gullen Smith, known for her work with youth and bibliotherapy."<ref>Smith, Alice Gullen. 1989. "Will the real bibliotherapist please stand up?." Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 2, 241-249.</ref> In 2012 the Ashley Bryan Art series celebrated ten years of exhibits and programs.<ref name="Gómez 2012 18–19">{{cite journal|last=Gómez|first=E.|title=Broward County Library Celebrates Ten Years of the Ashley Bryan Art Series|journal=Children & Libraries |date=2012|volume=10|issue=1|pages=18–19}}</ref> "The series began with Ashley Bryan submitting eight original art pieces to the library to serve as core of the art collection."<ref name="Gómez 2012 18–19"/> It became "a children's book author and illustrator series which has brought Coretta Scott King-Award winning authors and illustrators whose work reflected African culture to the library".<ref name="Gómez 2012 18–19"/> "The Ashley Bryan Art series has had a long-lasting cultural effect upon the community bringing children and families into the library and engaging youth with children’s book art and illustrations."<ref name="Gómez 2012 18–19"/>
 
Bryan was honored by Maine governor [[Janet Mills]] who proclaimed July 13, 2020 "Ashley Frederick Bryan Day" for his lifetime contributions to the state.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mainepublic.org/post/mills-declares-ashley-bryan-day-honor-97-year-old-artist-and-author |title=Mills Declares 'Ashley Bryan Day' To Honor 97-Year-Old Artist And Author |last=Arnold |first=Willis Ryder |date=July 14, 2020 |publisher=Maine Public |access-date=July 19, 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/83872-maine-declares-ashley-bryan-day.html |title=Maine Declares Ashley Bryan Day |last=Green |first=Alex |date=July 16, 2020 |publisher=Publishers Weekly |access-date=July 19, 2020 }}</ref>
 
=== Awards for particular works ===
 
For particular books he has been honored several times including multiple Coretta Scott King Awards and honors for illustration, the inaugural [[Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award]] from the [[Pennsylvania State University]], the [[Lupine Award]] from the Maine Library Association, and the Golden Kite Award for nonfiction.
 
* 1981, [[Coretta Scott King Award]] for illustration, ''Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum''<ref name="CSK Awards">{{cite web | title = Coretta Scott King Book Award — All Recipients, 1970–Present | date = April 5, 2012 | publisher = ALA | url = http://www.ala.org/emiert/coretta-scott-king-book-awards-all-recipients-1970-present | access-date = February 9, 2022}}</ref>
* 1983, Coretta Scott King Honor for illustration, ''I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals''<ref name="CSK Awards"/>
* 1986, Coretta Scott King Honor for writing and illustration, ''Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales''<ref name="CSK Awards"/>
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* 2004, Coretta Scott King Award for illustration, ''Beautiful Blackbird''<ref name="CSK Awards"/>
* 2008, Coretta Scott King Award for illustration, ''Let it Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals''<ref name="CSK Awards"/>
* 2010, [[Golden Kite Award]] for nonfiction, ''Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life's Song''<ref name="GoldenKite">{{cite web |title=Past Golden Kite Recipients |url=https://www.scbwi.org/awards/golden-kite-award/125854-2/ |publisher=[[Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators]] |access-date=February 9, 2022 |archive-date=August 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220820023222/https://www.scbwi.org/awards/golden-kite-award/125854-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2017, [[Newbery Medal|Newbery Honor]], Coretta Scott King Honor for writing and illustration, Lupine Award for picture book, [[Kirkus Prize]] for Young Readers' Literature finalist, ''[[Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan]]''<ref name="king" /><ref name="Lupine"/><ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/01/american-library-association-announces-2017-youth-media-award-winners |title=American Library Association announces 2017 youth media award winners |date=January 30, 2017 |publisher=American Library Association |accessdate=February 9, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=2016 Kirkus Prize |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2016/ |publisher=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |access-date=February 10, 2022}}</ref>
* 2020, [[Carter G. Woodson]] Book Award, Coretta Scott King Award for illustration, ''Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.socialstudies.org/awards/woodson/winners |title=Carter G. Woodson Book Award and Honor Winners |website=socialstudies.org |publisher=National Council for the Social Studies |access-date=June 22, 2020 }}</ref><ref name=PRESSHERALD>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressherald.com/2020/01/28/ashley-bryan-and-daniel-minter-win-national-book-awards/|title=Ashley Bryan and Daniel Minter win national youth book awards|first=Bob |last=Keyes |date=January 28, 2020}}</ref>
 
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=== Bibliography ===
* ''Black Boy'' by [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]] (1950)<ref name="WashingtonPostObit">{{CNcite news |last1=Smith |first1=Harrison |title=Ashley Bryan, whose joyous picture books celebrated Black life and history, dies at 98 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/02/08/writer-illustrator-ashley-bryan-dead/ |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |access-date=February 10, 2022 |date=February 8, 2022}}</ref>
* ''Fabliaux: Ribald Tales from the Old French'' translated by Robert Hellman and Richard O’GormanO'Gorman (1965, 1966)<ref name="MaineStateLib">{{CNcite web |title=Bryan, Ashley (1923 - ) |url=https://www.maine.gov/msl/maine/writdisplay.shtml?id=95018 |publisher=[[Maine State Library]] |access-date=February 9, 2022}}</ref>
* ''Moon, For What Do You Wait? Poems by [[Rabindranath Tagore]]'' (1967){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales'' (1971)<ref name="PennStateBiblio">{{cite web |title=Bryan, Ashley Bryan {{!}} Pennsylvania Center for the Book |url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/bryan__ashley literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Bryan__Ashley|publisher=[[Pennsylvania State University]] |access-date=February 9, 2022}}</ref>
* ''Walk Together Children: Black American Spirituals'' Vol 1 (1974){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''The Adventures of Aku'' (1976)<ref name="PennStateBiblio"/>
* ''The Dancing Granny'' (1977)<ref name="PennStateBiblio"/>
* ''I Greet the Dawn: Poems by [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]]'' (1978){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''Jethro and the Jumbie'' by [[Susan Cooper]] (1979){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''Jim Flying High'' by [[Mari Evans]] (1979){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum'' (1980)<ref name="PennStateBiblio"/>
* ''I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals'' Vol 2 (1982)<ref name="CSK Awards"/>
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* ''Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Poems'' (1986)<ref name="PennStateBiblio"/>
* ''What a Morning: The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals'' by [[John Langstaff]] (1987)<ref name="CSK Awards"/>
* ''Sh-Ko and his Eight Wicked Brothers'' illustrated by [[Fumio Yoshimura]] (1988){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''Turtle Knows Your Name'' (1989){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''Pourquoi Tales: The Cat's Purr, Why Frog and Snake Never Play Together, the Fire Bringer'' with [[Margaret Hodges]] (1989)<ref name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals'' (1991)<ref name="PennStateBiblio"/>
* ''Climbing Jacob’s Ladder'' by John Langstaff (1991){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''Sing to the Sun'' (1992)<ref name="PennStateBiblio"/>
* ''Christmas Gif’: An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs and Stories Written by and About African-Americans'' by [[Charlemae Hill Rollins|Charemae Rollins]] (1993){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''The Story of Lightning and Thunder'' (1993, 1999){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''What a Wonderful World'' by [[George David Weiss]] and [[Bob Thiele]] (1995){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''It's Kwanzaa Time!'' by Linda and Clay Goss (1995)<ref name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''The Story of the Three Kingdoms'' by [[Walter Dean Myers]] (19971995){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''The Sun Is So Quiet: Poems by [[Nikki Giovanni]]'' (1996)<ref name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry'' (1997, 2001)<ref name="CSK Awards"/><ref name="MaineStateLib"/>▼
* ''Carol of the Brown King: Nativity Poems by [[Langston Hughes]]'' (1998){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>▼
* ''The House with No Door: African Riddle-Poems'' by Brian Swann (1998)<ref name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''Ashley Bryan’s African Tales, Uh Huh'' (1998)<ref name="PennStateBiblio"/>
* ''Why Leopard Has Spots, Dan Stories from Liberia'' by Won-Ldy Paye and [[Margaret H. Lippert]] (19991998){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>▼
▲* ''Carol of the Brown King: Nativity Poems by [[Langston Hughes]]'' (1998){{CN|date=February 2022}}
* ''The HouseNight withHas No DoorEars: African Riddle-PoemsProverbs'' by Brian Swann (19981999){{CN|date<ref name=February 2022}}"MaineStateLib"/>
* ''Aneesa Lee and the Weaver’s Gift'' by [[Nikki Grimes]] (1999)<ref name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''Jump Back, Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar'', co-illustrators [[Carole Byard]], [[Jan Spivey Gilchrist]], [[Jerry Pinkney]], and [[Faith Ringgold]] (1999){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''How God Fix Jonah'' by Lorenz Graham (2000){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>▼
* ''The Night Has Ears: African Proverbs'' (1999){{CN|date=February 2022}}
* ''Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets'' by [[Naomi Shihab Nye|Naomi Shahab Nye]] (2000){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>▼
▲* ''Why Leopard Has Spots, Dan Stories from Liberia'' by Won-Ldy Paye and [[Margaret H. Lippert]] (1999){{CN|date=February 2022}}
▲* ''How God Fix Jonah'' by Lorenz Graham (2000){{CN|date=February 2022}}
▲* ''Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets'' by [[Naomi Shihab Nye|Naomi Shahab Nye]] (2000){{CN|date=February 2022}}
▲* ''Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry'' (2001)<ref name="CSK Awards"/>
* ''Beautiful Blackbird'' (2003)<ref name="PennStateBiblio"/>
* ''A Nest Full of Stars'' by [[James Berry (poet)|James Berry]] (2004){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''Let It Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals'' (2007)<ref name="CSK Awards"/>
* ''My America'' by [[Jan Spivey Gilchrist]], co-illustrator (2007){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="MaineStateLib"/>
* ''Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life's Song'' (2009)<ref name="GoldenKite"/>
* ''All Things Bright and Beautiful'' by [[Cecil Frances Alexander|Cecil Alexander]] (2010)<ref name="PennStateBiblio"/>
* ''Who Built the Stable?'' (2012)<ref name="PennStateBiblio"/>
* ''Can’t Scare Me!'' (2013)<ref name="PennStateBiblio"/>
* ''Ashley Bryan’s Puppets: Making Something From Everything'' (2014)<ref>{{cite web |title=Children's Book Review: Ashley Bryan's Puppets: Making Something From Everything|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781442487284|publisher=[[Publishers Weekly]] |access-date=February 10, 2022 |language=en |date=May 19, 2014}}</ref>
* ''Ashley Bryan’s Puppets'' (2014){{CN|date=February 2022}}
* ''By Trolley Past ThimbletonThimbledon Bridge'' illustrated by Marvin Bileck (2015)<ref>{{CNcite web |title=By Trolley Past Thimbledon Bridge |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ashley-bryan/by-trolley-past-thimbledon-bridge/ |publisher=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |access-date=February 10, 2022 |language=en |date=February 16, 2015}}</ref>
* ''Sail Away'' by Langston Hughes (2015){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="nytobit"/>
* ''[[Freedom Over Me|Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life]]'' (2016){{CN|date=February<ref 2022}}name="Lupine"/>
* ''I Am Loved'' by [[Nikki Giovanni]] (2018)<ref name=":0" />
* ''Blooming Beneath the Sun'' by [[Christina Rossetti]] (2019)<ref>{{cite web |title=Children's Book Review: Blooming Beneath the Sun |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781534440920 |publisher=[[Publishers Weekly]] |access-date=February 10, 2022 |language=en |date=February 14, 2019}}</ref>
* ''Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace'' (2020)<ref name=PRESSHERALD/>
 
===Filmography===
 
*''I Know a Man ... Ashley Bryan'' (2016) - dir. Richard Kane, ''director''<ref>{{CNcite web |title=I Know A Man...Ashley Bryan - Presented by Gene Siskel Film Center |url=https://arts.uchicago.edu/event/i-know-manashley-bryan-presented-gene-siskel-film-center |publisher=[[The University of Chicago]] |access-date=February 9, 2022}}</ref>
 
===Stage works===
 
American composer [[Alvin Singleton]] composed ''Sing to the Sun'', a commissioned work for the 1995-1996 season by a consortium of five musical festivals. The work consisted of a chamber orchestra made up of an oboe, clarinet, viola, piano and percussion,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.alvinsingleton.com/press/creating-loafing-sing-to-the-sun.pdf|title=Sing To The Sun|last=Gresham|first=Mark|date=18 November 18, 1995|work=Vibes|access-date=July 18, 2017|publisher=Atlanta.CreativeLoafing.Com|location=Atlanta|pages=89}}</ref> children's voices and a narrator, and drew upon the collection of poems by Bryan entitled: ''Sing to the Sun: Poems and Pictures''. Bryan himself narrated the premiere and all the following performances.<ref>{{cite book|title=Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults|last=Thrash Murphy|first=Barbara|date=August 14, 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415762731|location=USA|page=38}}</ref>
 
On June 10, 2017 the world premiere of [[Alliance Theatre]]’s production ''Dancing Granny'' took place at the [[Oglethorpe University]]'s Conant Performing Arts Center in [[Atlanta|Atlanta, Georgia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/northside_sandy_springs/dancing-granny-kicking-off-alliance-s---season/article_8b1173a8-487f-11e7-8d0a-2740c4cb090e.html|title='Dancing Granny' kicking off Alliance's 2017-18 season|last=Baldowski|first=Bill|date=June 3, 2017|publisher=Northside Neighbor|access-date=July 18, 2017}}</ref> The musical play was adapted for the stage from Bryan's book of the same name with music composed by Jireh Breon Holder and choreography by Ameenah Kaplan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/atlanta/article/Alliance-to-Premiere-Beloved-Childrens-Story-THE-DANCING-GRANNY-20170505|title=Alliance to Premiere Beloved Children's Story, THE DANCING GRANNY|last=News Desk|first=BWW|date=May 5, 2017|website=Broadway World|access-date=July 18, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.wabe.org/post/alliance-theatre-adapts-dancing-granny-stage|title=Alliance Theatre Adapts 'The Dancing Granny' For The Stage|last=Watts|first=Gabbie|date=June 2, 2017|publisher=WABE 90.1|access-date=July 18, 2017}}</ref>
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[http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20120209095925/http://www.ala.org/news/pr?id=9112 "Ashley Bryan 2012 recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement"]. Press release January 23, 2012. ALA. Retrieved July 5, 2012-07-05.</ref>
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[http://www.ala.org/emiert/cskbookawards/ "Coretta Scott King Book Awards"]. ALA. Retrieved July 5, 2012-07-05.</ref>
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[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/wildermedal/wilderpast "Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, Past winners"]. [[Association for Library Service to Children|ALSC]]. ALA.<br />
[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/wildermedal/wilderabout "About the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award"]. ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2013-03-10.</ref>
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{{cite web | title = Welcome to the (Laura Ingalls) Wilder Award home page! | publisher = [[Association for Library Service to Children]] (ALSC). [[American Library Association]] (ALA). | year = 2009 | url = http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/wildermedal/index.cfm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100201213533/http://ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/wildermedal/index.cfm |archive-date= February 1, 2010-02-01 |access-date= 2013-06-June 10, 2013 }}</ref>
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[http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=545 "IBBY Announces the Winners of the Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2006"]. [[International Board on Books for Young People]] (IBBY). Press release 27 March 27, 2006.<br />
&nbsp; [http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=273 "Hans Christian Andersen Awards"]. IBBY. Retrieved 2013-07-23.</ref>
 
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*{{cite web
| title = Bryan, Ashley
| publisher = Pennsylvania State University
| url = http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Bryan__Ashley.html}}
 
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|5618944|I Know a Man ... Ashley Bryan}}
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3d8cIBzT00 Ashley Bryan's Wish]
* [https://specialcollections.usm.edu/repositories/4/resources/527 Ashley Bryan Papers], Special Collections at the University of Southern Mississippi (de Grummond Children's Literature Collection)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20191123004607/https://lccn.loc.gov/n92056765 Ashley Bryan] at [[Library of Congress]] Authorities — with 51 catalog records
 
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