1 option
Princess Gorilla and a new kind of water : a Mpongwe tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Victoria Chess.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ8.1.A213 Pr 1988
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aardema, Verna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--Africa, West.
- Folklore.
- West Africa.
- Mpongwe (African people)--Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- Hong Kong : Printed by South China Printing Co.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [©1988]
- Summary:
- King Gorilla decrees that no one may marry his daughter until a suitor strong enough to consume a barrel of strange, intoxicating water is found.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Sara Reynolds"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "The full-color artwork was prepared using pen and inks, dyes, and colored pencils. It was then color-separated and reproduced in red, blue, yellow, and black halftones."
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0803704127
- 9780803704121
- 0803704135
- 9780803704138
- OCLC:
- 15084237
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.