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The patchwork quilt / by Valerie Flournoy ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.F667 Pat 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flournoy, Valerie, 1952-
- Series:
- Reading rainbow book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quilting--Juvenile fiction.
- Quilting.
- Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction.
- Grandmothers.
- Families--Juvenile fiction.
- Families.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Quilting--Fiction.
- Grandmothers--Fiction.
- Family life--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Juvenile literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1985.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [©1985]
- Summary:
- Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life.
- Notes:
- "Design by Susan Lu"--t.p. verso.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "The art for each picture consists of a pencil, graphite, and watercolor painting, which is camera-separated and reproduced in full color."
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Illustrator, Winner, 1986
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy has Coretta Scott King Award sticker on dust jacket.
- Tehon Collection copy is "19" printing.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Flournoy, Valerie, 1952- Patchwork quilt.
- ISBN:
- 0803700970
- 9780803700970
- 0803700989
- 9780803700987
- OCLC:
- 10375013
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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