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Waiting for the evening star / Rosemary Wells ; paintings by Susan Jeffers.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.W46843 Wai 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wells, Rosemary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farm life--Juvenile fiction.
- Farm life.
- Brothers--Juvenile fiction.
- Brothers.
- Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction.
- Grandmothers.
- Families--Juvenile fiction.
- Families.
- Adolescence--Juvenile fiction.
- Adolescence.
- Growth--Juvenile fiction.
- Growth.
- Winter--Juvenile fiction.
- Winter.
- Summer--Juvenile fiction.
- Summer.
- World War, 1914-1918--United States--Juvenile fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Vermont--Juvenile fiction.
- Vermont.
- Farm life--Fiction.
- Brothers--Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918--United States--Fiction.
- Vermont--Fiction.
- Brothers-Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918-United States-Fiction.
- Farm life-Fiction.
- Vermont-Fiction.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Brothers-Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918-United States-Fiction.
- Farm life-Fiction.
- Vermont-Fiction.
- Genre:
- Family stories -- 1993.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1993.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [©1993]
- Summary:
- Growing up between 1909 and 1917, Berty enjoys the slow-rolling wheel of time on his Vermont farm and cannot understand his older brother's desire to see other parts of the world.
- Notes:
- "Desgned by Atha Tehon"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- "The full-color artwork was prepared using watercolor washes over pencil drawings. Fine-line ink and dyes and were then applied."
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0803713983
- 9780803713987
- 0803713991
- 9780803713994
- OCLC:
- 26765597
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