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The knee-high man and other tales. / Julius Lester. Pictures by Ralph Pinto.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ8.1.L434 Kn
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lester, Julius, 1939-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Folklore.
- African Americans.
- Tales--United States.
- Tales.
- United States.
- Folklore--United States.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 28 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Dial Press, [1972]
- Summary:
- Retells six tales from American black folk literature.
- Contents:
- What is trouble?
- Why dogs hate cats
- Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear
- Why the waves have whitecaps
- The farmer and the snake
- The knee-high man.
- Notes:
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy is "4" printing with Dial Books for Young Readers in the publisher statement.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lester, Julius. Knee-high man, and other tales.
- OCLC:
- 213146
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