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Richard Wright and the library card / by William Miller ; illustrated by Gregory Christie.
Van Pelt Library PZ7.M63915 Ri 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, William, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Juvenile fiction.
- Wright, Richard.
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Books and reading--Fiction.
- Libraries--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- Hong Kong : Printed by South China Printing Co. (1988) Ltd.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Lee & Low Books, Inc., [1997]
- Summary:
- Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.
- Notes:
- "Book Design by Christy Hale"--t.p. verso.
- "The text is set in Congress."
- "The illustrations are rendered in acrylic and colored pencil."
- "First Edition."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- A Smithsonian Notable Children's Book and a Society of School Librarians International Honor Book.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1880000571
- 9781880000571
- 1880000881
- 9781880000885
- OCLC:
- 36458127
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