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It could always be worse : a Yiddish folk tale / retold and with pictures by Margot Zemach.
LIBRA - Tehon Collection PZ8.1.Z4 It copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zemach, Margot.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Extended families--Juvenile fiction.
- Extended families.
- Domestic animals--Juvenile fiction.
- Domestic animals.
- Poverty--Juvenile fiction.
- Poverty.
- Wisdom--Juvenile fiction.
- Wisdom.
- Satisfaction--Juvenile fiction.
- Satisfaction.
- Jews--Juvenile fiction.
- Jews.
- Folklore--Juvenile fiction.
- Folklore.
- Jews--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Jews--Folklore.
- Genre:
- Folklore -- Juvenile.
- Caldecott Medal Honor book -- 1978.
- Fiction.
- Folklore.
- Juvenile works.
- Juvenile literature -- 1976.
- Authors' autographs (Provenance) -- Zemach -- 1976.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1976.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [1976]
- Summary:
- Unable to stand his overcrowded and noisy home any longer, a poor man goes to the Rabbi for advice.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Atha Tehon"--t.p. verso.
- "First edition, 1976."
- Caldecott Honor Book, 1978.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0374336504
- 9780374336509
- OCLC:
- 2632649
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