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Minty : a story of young Harriet Tubman / by Alan Schroeder ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E444.T82 S37 1996 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schroeder, Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913--Juvenile literature.
- Tubman, Harriet.
- Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Enslaved persons.
- United States.
- African Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Underground Railroad--Juvenile literature.
- Underground Railroad.
- Antislavery movements--United States--Juvenile literature.
- Antislavery movements.
- Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913.
- Women--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers [a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.], [©1996]
- Summary:
- Young Harriet Tubman, whose childhood name was Minty, dreams of escaping slavery on the Brodas plantation in the late 1820s.
- Notes:
- "Typography by Jane Byers Bierhorst"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "The full-color artwork was prepared with pencil, colored pencils, and watercolor."
- "While 'Minty' is a fictional account of Harriet Tubman's childhood, and some scenes have been invented for narrative purposes, the basic facts are true."--P. [3]
- CCBC Choices, 1996
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Illustrator, Winner, 1997
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy front free endpaper has post-it note "Return to Atha".
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy 1: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy 2: "Special Edition" with "Reprinted by arrangement with Dial Books for Young Readers a division of Penguin Books USA, Inc." on title-page verso.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Schroeder, Alan. Minty.
- ISBN:
- 0803718888
- 9780803718883
- 0803718896
- 9780803718890
- OCLC:
- 32821613
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