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The great ball game : a Muskogee story / retold by Joseph Bruchac ; illustrated by Susan L. Roth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creek Indians--Folklore.
- Creek Indians.
- Indians of North America--Folklore.
- Animals--Folklore.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- Hong Kong : Printed by South China Printing Company (1988) Limited)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [©1994]
- Summary:
- Bat, who has both wings and teeth, plays an important part in a game between the Birds and the Animals to decide which group is better.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Ann Finnell"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "The illustrations are rendered in collage using paper collected from all over the world: red umbrella paper from Thailand, a cranberry colored envelope from Tibet, a blue from Japan, a dark green from Italy, and many other places. Several kinds of paper were handmade, including the mottled white of the rabbit, made by Sheila Swan Laufer, and the gray of the squirrel, marbled by the artist."
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0803715390
- 9780803715394
- 0803715404
- 9780803715400
- 9780439323321
- 0439323320
- OCLC:
- 28724292
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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