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The Old African / Julius Lester ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.L5629 Ol 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lester, Julius, 1939-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Extrasensory perception--Fiction.
- Telepathy--Fiction.
- Slavery--Juvenile fiction.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Extrasensory perception--Juvenile fiction.
- Extrasensory perception.
- Telepathy--Juvenile fiction.
- Telepathy.
- Africa--Juvenile fiction.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (inscription copy 2) (Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Tehon, Susan (donor) (Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Pinkney, Jerry (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy 2)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 79 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Dial Books [a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.], [2005]
- Summary:
- Based on legend and infused with magical realism, this haunting tale expresses the horrors of slavery and the hope and strength that managed to overcome its grip. Illustrations.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Jerry Pinkney with Atha Tehon"--t.p. verso.
- "Text set in Goudy Newstyle."
- "The full-color artwork was prepared using graphite, gouache, pastel, and watercolor on paper."
- "Please note: Although based on an actual incident from black history, this is a work of the imagination."
- Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2006
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2: dust jackets retained.
- Tehon Collection copy 1 has letter from Nancy Paulsen (?) to Atha Tehon laid in.
- Tehon Collection copy 2 inscribed by Jerry Pinkney to Atha Tehon 9.28.05.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has "Reinforced binding".
- ISBN:
- 0803725647 :
- 9780803725645
- OCLC:
- 53375920
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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