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The peddler's gift / Maxine Rose Schur ; pictures by Kimberly Bulcken Root.
LIBRA - Tehon Collection PZ7.S3964 Pe 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schur, Maxine.
- Standardized Title:
- Shnook the peddler
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peddlers--Juvenile fiction.
- Peddlers.
- Peddling--Juvenile fiction.
- Peddling.
- Jews--Russia (Federation)--Juvenile fiction.
- Jews.
- Peddlers--Fiction.
- Jews--Russia--Fiction.
- Russia (Federation).
- Peddlers and peddling--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Peddlers and peddling--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 27 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [1999]
- Summary:
- A young boy in turn-of-the-century rural Russia learns that appearances are often deceiving after he steals and then tries to return a dreidel (a four-sided spinning top) to the traveling peddler Shnook. Suggested level: primary.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in different form as 'Schnook the peddler' by Dillon Press"--t.p. verso.
- "Designed by Julie Rauer"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "The illustrations were created with watercolor and pencil."
- Sydney Taylor Award for Younger Readers,1999.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Schur, Maxine. Shnook the peddler. Peddler's gift.
- ISBN:
- 0803719787
- 9780803719781
- 0803719795
- 9780803719798
- OCLC:
- 39505735
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