To Be a Drum

To Be a Drum read by James Earl Jones for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Literacy Program

"Long before time, before hours and minutes or seconds, on the continent of Africa, the rhythm of the earth beat for the first people. . . ". And with the rhythm begins a story, as Daddy whispers to his two young listeners the tale of the "drum", the pulse which has moved through the African people and through time and place. A "Smithsonian Magazine" Notable Book for Children for 1996.