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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
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Aardema, Verna.
Contributor:
Chess, Victoria, illustrator.
Reynolds, Sara.
Tehon, Atha.
Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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

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