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The beasts of Bethlehem / verse by X. J. Kennedy ; drawings by Michael McCurdy.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PS3521.E563 B4 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, X. J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--Nativity--Juvenile poetry.
- Jesus Christ.
- Children's poetry, American.
- Christian poetry, American.
- Christmas poetry.
- Animals--Juvenile poetry.
- Animals.
- Jesus Christ--Nativity--Poetry.
- Animals--Poetry.
- Christmas--Poetry.
- American poetry.
- Nativity of Jesus Christ.
- Christmas-Poetry-Juvenile.
- Local Subjects:
- Christmas-Poetry-Juvenile.
- Genre:
- Children's poetry.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1992.
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 39 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- Hong Kong : Printed and bound by Toppan Printing Co., (H.K.) Ltd.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York ; Oxford : Maxwell Macmillan International, [©1992]
- Summary:
- Presents nineteen poems, each in the voice of a creature that was present in the stable at the time of Christ's birth.
- Contents:
- Cow
- Owl
- Horse
- Camel
- Sheep
- Mouse
- Cat
- Snail
- Hen
- Hawk
- Ant
- Hummingbird
- Bat
- Mosquito
- Goat
- Worm
- Ox
- Beetle
- Donkey.
- Notes:
- "First edition."
- "The text of this book is set in Meridien."
- "The drawings are rendered in scratchboard and colored pencils."
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0689505612
- 9780689505614
- OCLC:
- 24951919
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