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Seven candles for Kwanzaa / Andrea Davis Pinkney ; pictures by Brian Pinkney.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection GT4403 .P56 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kwanzaa--Juvenile literature.
- Kwanzaa.
- Kwanzaa cooking--Juvenile literature.
- Kwanzaa cooking.
- Kwanzaa decorations--Juvenile literature.
- Kwanzaa decorations.
- Harvest festivals--Juvenile literature.
- Harvest festivals.
- African Americans--Social life and customs--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- Families--Juvenile literature.
- Families.
- Gifts--Juvenile literature.
- Gifts.
- Family life.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1993.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (inscription) (Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Pinkney, Andrea Davis (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy 2)
- Pinkney, J. Brian (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy 2)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Other Title:
- 7 candles for Kwanzaa
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [©1993]
- Summary:
- Describes the origins and practices of Kwanzaa, the seven-day festival during which people of African descent rejoice in their ancestral values.
- Notes:
- "Design by Nancy R. Leo"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "The full-color artwork was prepared using scratchboard, a technique that requires a white board covered in black ink. The ink is then scraped off with a sharp tool to reveal the white, which is painted over with oil pastels."
- Includes bibliographical references (page [32]).
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2: dust jackets retained.
- Tehon Collection copy 2 inscribed to Atha by Brian and Andrea Pinkney.
- Tehon Collection copy 2 has [2] loose leaves with biographical information about Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0803712928
- 9780803712928
- 0803712936
- 9780803712935
- OCLC:
- 25317662
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