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The boy who held back the sea / paintings by Thomas Locker ; retelling by Lenny Hort.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.H7918 Bo 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hort, Lenny.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Courage--Juvenile fiction.
- Courage.
- Boys--Juvenile fiction.
- Boys.
- Dikes (Engineering)--Juvenile fiction.
- Dikes (Engineering).
- Intergenerational relations--Juvenile fiction.
- Intergenerational relations.
- Imagination--Juvenile fiction.
- Imagination.
- Heroes--Juvenile fiction.
- Heroes.
- Truthfulness and falsehood--Juvenile fiction.
- Truthfulness and falsehood.
- Storytelling--Juvenile fiction.
- Storytelling.
- Families--Juvenile fiction.
- Families.
- Netherlands--Juvenile fiction.
- Netherlands.
- Dikes (Engineering)--Fiction.
- Netherlands--History--19th century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1987.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books, [©1987]
- Summary:
- By blocking a leaking hole in the dike, a young boy saves his town from destruction.
- Notes:
- Adaptation of: Hans Brinker, or The silver skates / Mary Mapes Dodge.
- "Designed by Jane Byers Bierhorst"--t.p. verso.
- "The art for each picture consists of an oil painting, which is color-separated and reproduced in full color."
- 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 is "2" printing.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hort, Lenny. Boy who held back the sea.
- ISBN:
- 0803704070
- 9780803704077
- 0803704062
- 9780803704060
- 0803710496
- 9780803710498
- OCLC:
- 17770954
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