Ghost wings / by Barbara M. Joosse ; illustrated by Giselle Potter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joosse, Barbara M.

Contributor:

Potter, Giselle.

Glass, Nicholas.

Brogno, Kristine.

Tehon, Atha.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grandmothers--Death--Pictorial works--Juvenile fiction.

Grandmothers.

Mourning customs--Mexico--Pictorial works--Juvenile fiction.

Mourning customs.

Monarch butterfly--Mexico--Pictorial works--Juvenile fiction.

Monarch butterfly.

Death.

Mexico--Juvenile fiction.

Mexico.

Grandmothers--Fiction.

Death--Fiction.

All Souls' Day--Fiction.

Butterflies--Fiction.

Mexico--Fiction.

Genre:

Juvenile materials.

Pictorial works.

Fiction.

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2001]

Summary:

While celebrating the Days of the Dead, a young Mexican girl remembers her wonderful grandmother who sang songs, made tortillas, chased monsters away, and loved butterflies.

Notes:

Includes Discussion Guide written by Nicholas Glass.

"Book design by Kristine Brogno"--p. [2]

"Typeset in Goudy and Historical Fell Type."

"The illustrations in this book were rendered in ink, watercolors and colored pencils."

Designed by Atha Tehon.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Tehon Collection copy has post-it with ms. annotations attached to front cover.

ISBN:

0811821641

9780811821643

OCLC:

45015690

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