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Tales for the perfect child / by Florence Parry Heide ; pictures by Victoria Chess.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.H36 Tal 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heide, Florence Parry.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Conduct of life.
- Children's stories, American.
- Conduct of life--Fiction.
- Animals--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 79 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, [©1985]
- Summary:
- Vignettes of children whose less than desirable behavior is masked in insidious but acceptable ways.
- Contents:
- Ruby
- Arthur
- Gertrude & Gloria
- Bertha
- Harriet
- Irving
- Ethel.
- Notes:
- "First Edition."
- "Typography by Kathleen Westray."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy has Dial memo with ms. annotations laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0688038921
- 9780688038922
- 068803893X
- 9780688038939
- OCLC:
- 10558682
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