Word: honeybunch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Black American folklore is the source of Margot Zemach's Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $13.95). Jake, a laborer, lives near a town appropriately called Hard Times. Honeybunch is a mule, with a disposition that belies her name. One evening the pair run into a freight train and wind up on the Glory Road to the Pearly Gates. Zemach's mural-like paintings create a midnight world of green pastures, good food and celestial jazz. After the requisite tantrum, even Honeybunch sees the light: the brilliance of the moon and all the stars that...