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Jonkonnu : a story from the sketchbook of Winslow Homer / by Amy Littlesugar ; illustrated by Ian Schoenherr.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.L7362 Jj 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Littlesugar, Amy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910--Juvenile fiction.
- Homer, Winslow.
- Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910--Fiction.
- Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Artists--Fiction.
- Southern States--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Manufacture:
- Hong Kong : Printed by South China Printing Co. (1988) Ltd.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Philomel Books, [©1997]
- Summary:
- A young southern girl tells of the time Winslow Homer came to town to paint pictures and defied the town fathers by portraying the lives of the poor black people who lived down the red clay road.
- Notes:
- "Book design by Patrick Collins"--Colophon.
- "The text is set in Berkeley, Old Style Medium."
- "First Impression."
- 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 has "Putnam Young Readers Group In-House Transmittal Form" laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0399228314
- 9780399228315
- OCLC:
- 33668218
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