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On Mardi Gras day / Fatima Shaik ; paintings by Floyd Cooper.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.S52785 Oj 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaik, Fatima, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carnival--Juvenile fiction.
- Carnival.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- New Orleans (La.)--Juvenile fiction.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Mardi Gras--Fiction.
- New Orleans (La.)--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)(Tehon Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1999.
- Summary:
- Two children participating in the traditional Mardi Gras celebration see such sights as the Zulu and Rex parades, enjoying the songs, bright costumes, and gigantic floats.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Debora Smith"--title page verso.
- "Text copyright ©1999 by Fatima Shaik"--verso of title page.
- "Paintings copyright ©1999 by Floyd Cooper.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "Printed in Hong Kong"--verso of title page.
- "The pictures for this book were painted in oil on board"--verso of title page.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy retains dust jacket.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy formerly the property of a library in Columbus Ohio.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shaik, Fatima, 1952- On Mardi Gras day.
- ISBN:
- 0803714424
- 9780803714427
- 0803714432
- 9780803714434
- OCLC:
- 36662924
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