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The nightingale / Hans Christian Andersen ; adapted and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
LIBRA - Tehon Collection PZ8.P575 Ni 2002 copy 3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinkney, Jerry.
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories, Danish--Translations into English.
- Children's stories, Danish.
- Fairy tales.
- Birds--Juvenile fiction.
- Birds.
- Nightingale--Juvenile fiction.
- Nightingale.
- Nightingales--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Pinkney, Jerry (autograph) (Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Hans Christian Andersen The Nightingale
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Phyllis Fogelman Books, [©2002]
- Summary:
- Despite being neglected by the emperor for a jewel-studded bird, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with its beautiful song. A retelling set in Northwest Africa.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Jerry Pinkney with Atha Tehon"--t.p. verso.
- "Text set in Tiffany Light."
- "The full-color artwork was prepared using graphie, gouache, and watercolor on paper."
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2003
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copies 1-3 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copies 1-3: dust jackets retained.
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2 have autograph of Jerry Pinkney 2002.
- Tehon Collection copy 1 has card from Lily Malcolm to Atha Tehon laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0803724640
- 9780803724648
- OCLC:
- 47930623
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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