Description
By: John Langstaff | Illustrator: Ashley Bryan
Climbing Jacob's Ladder is John Langstaff's work celebrating heroes of the bible in African-American Spirituals.
An illustrated collection of black spirituals about Old Testament heroes in which "naive, lively illustrations in brilliant hues depict the Biblical figures as African-Americans might have imagined them, in their own image and likeness, in shades ranging from cafe au lait to molasses." (Patricia Dooley, University of Washington, Seattle)
Climbing Jacob's Ladder is John Langstaff's work celebrating heroes of the bible in African-American Spirituals.
An illustrated collection of black spirituals about Old Testament heroes in which "naive, lively illustrations in brilliant hues depict the Biblical figures as African-Americans might have imagined them, in their own image and likeness, in shades ranging from cafe au lait to molasses." (Patricia Dooley, University of Washington, Seattle)