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The hired hand : an African-American folktale / retold by Robert D. San Souci ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.A46698 H57 1997
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.1.S227 Hi 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- San Souci, Robert D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Folklore--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Folklore--Juvenile fiction.
- Folklore.
- Sawmills--Juvenile fiction.
- Sawmills.
- Sawmill workers--Juvenile fiction.
- Sawmill workers.
- Honesty--Juvenile fiction.
- Honesty.
- African Americans--Folklore.
- Sawmills--Folklore.
- Sawmill workers--Folklore.
- Magic--Folklore.
- Rejuvenation--Folklore.
- Honesty--Folklore.
- Folktales, American.
- Folktales, African American.
- Integrity--Folklore.
- Folklore--United States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [c1997].
- Summary:
- Old Sam hires a man to help out at his saw mill, and the hired hand also teaches Sam's lazy son a lesson about how to treat people.
- Notes:
- "Typography by Jane Byers Bierhorst"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "The full-color artwork was prepared using pencil and watercolor."
- Best Children's Books of the Year, 1998; Bank Street College of Education.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0803712960
- 0803712979
- OCLC:
- 29258986
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