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Paji / story by Esther Kiviat ; pictures by Harold Price.
LIBRA PZ7.K673 Paj
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kiviat, Esther.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tamils--Fiction.
- Sri Lanka--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 56 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Junior Literary Guild : Whittlesey House, [1946]
- Summary:
- In Ceylon (Sri Lanka) young Paji, a Tamil boy, works in the family business carving ebony elephants for the tourist trade, but he longs to carve other things, too. When his father forbids it, he takes his pet bullock and goes into the jungle to carve, returning to win the prize in a carving contest in his native village.
- OCLC:
- 11819798
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