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Rats on the range and other stories / James Marshall.
LIBRA - Tehon Collection PZ7.M35672 Rar 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marshall, James, 1942-1992.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories, American.
- Animals--Juvenile fiction.
- Animals.
- Animals--Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Juvenile literature -- 1993.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 80 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [©1993]
- Summary:
- In eight animals stories the reader meets a rat family that vacations at a dude ranch, a pig who takes lessons in table manners, a mouse who keeps house for a tomcat, and a buzzard who leaves his money to the Society for Stray Cats--or does he?
- Contents:
- Miss Mouse
- When pig went to heaven
- When pig took the wheel
- Mouse party
- Fair-weather pig
- When pig got smart
- Rats on the range
- Buzzard's will.
- Notes:
- "Sequel to the award-winning 'Rats on the Roof'"--Dust jacket.
- "Typography by jane Byers Bierhorst"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "'Buzzard's Will' is a playful tribute to the comedic opera 'Gianni Schicchi' written by Gioachino Forzano, with music by Giacomo Puccini."
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0803713843
- 9780803713840
- 0803713851
- 9780803713857
- OCLC:
- 26504211
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