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The secret of the stones : a folktale / retold by Robert D. San Souci ; pictures by James Ransome.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.1.S227 Se 2000
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ8.1.S227 Se 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- San Souci, Robert D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Folklore.
- African Americans.
- Folklore--United States.
- Folklore.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Phyllis Fogelman Books [an imprint of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers], [2000]
- Summary:
- When they try to find out who is doing their chores while they are working in the field, a childless couple discovers that the two stones they have brought home are actually two bewitched orphans.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Debora Smith and Atha Tehon"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- "The illustrations were done in oils on paper."
- Bibliographical references: page [40].
- 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.
- Banks Collection copy "Reinforced Binding".
- ISBN:
- 0803716400
- 9780803716407
- 0803716419
- 9780803716414
- OCLC:
- 29637782
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