Now available for the first time in nearly 40 years. Baldwins only childrens book follows the day-to-day life of four-year-old TJ and his friends in their Harlem neighborhood as they encounter the social realities of being black in America in the 1970s. Full color. nFour-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a Little Man with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwins only childrens book, Little Man, Little Man celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. n Now available for the first time in forty years, this new edition of Little Man, Little Man--which retains the charming original illustrations by French artist Yoran Cazac--includes a foreword by Baldwins nephew Tejan TJ Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his niece Aisha Karefa-Smart, with an introduction by two Baldwin scholars. In it we not only see life in 1970s Harlem from a black childs perspective, but we also gain a fuller appreciation of the genius of one of Americas greatest writers.n