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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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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.S52785 Oj 1999
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shaik, Fatima, 1952-
Contributor:
Cooper, Floyd, illustrator.
Smith, Debora.
Tehon, Atha.
Dial Books for Young Readers, publisher.
Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)
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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