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Waiting to waltz : a childhood / poems by Cynthia Rylant ; drawings by Stephen Gammell.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PS3568.Y55 W3 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rylant, Cynthia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's poetry, American.
- Adolescence--Juvenile poetry.
- Adolescence.
- Mountain life--Juvenile poetry.
- Mountain life.
- Small cities--Juvenile poetry.
- Small cities.
- Death--Juvenile poetry.
- Death.
- Religion--Juvenile poetry.
- Religion.
- Children's poetry.
- Appalachian Region--Juvenile poetry.
- Appalachian Region.
- American poetry.
- Appalachian Region--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Children's poetry.
- Authors' autographs (Provenance) -- Rylant -- 1984.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1984.
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 45 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Scarsdale, New York : Bradbury Press, [©1984]
- Summary:
- A cycle of thirty poems chronicles a young girl's growing up in a small Appalachian town.
- Contents:
- Beaver
- Wax Lips
- The brain surgeon
- General delivery
- Mr. Lafon
- Little short legs
- Holiness
- Spelling bee
- The great beyond
- Henry's Market
- The rescue
- Cassius
- Swearing
- Sam the shoe shop man
- Mad dog
- Mr. Dill
- The Kool-Kup
- Pink belly
- PTA
- Mike and Major
- Forgotten
- Band practice
- Catholics
- Steve
- Jimmy's dad
- Pet rock
- Rocky Trailer's grandmother's garage
- Saved
- Teenagers
- The world.
- Notes:
- "The text of this book is set in 12 pt. Goudy Old Style. The illustrations are pencil drawings reproduced in halftone."--Colophon.
- 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.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rylant, Cynthia. Waiting to waltz, a childhood.
- ISBN:
- 0027780007 :
- 9780027780000
- OCLC:
- 10799504
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