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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.
Contributor:
Tehon, Atha.
Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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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