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Down the road / Alice Schertle ; illustrated by E. B. Lewis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.S3442 Do 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schertle, Alice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eggs--Juvenile fiction.
- Eggs.
- Apples--Juvenile fiction.
- Apples.
- Country life--Juvenile fiction.
- Country life.
- Parent and child--Juvenile fiction.
- Parent and child.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Eggs--Fiction.
- Apples--Fiction.
- Country life--Fiction.
- Parent and child--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African American parent and child--Fiction.
- Children's stories, African American.
- Anxiety in girls--Fiction.
- Responsibility in girls--Fiction.
- Picture books.
- African American girls--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego ; New York ; London : Browndeer Press/Harcourt Brace & Company, [©1995]
- Summary:
- Hetty is very careful with the eggs she has bought on her very first trip to the store, but she runs into trouble when she stops to pick apples.
- Notes:
- "Browndeer Press is a registered trademark of Harcourt Brace & Company."
- "First edition."
- "The paintings in this book were done in Winsor & Newton watercolors on 300-lb. D'Arches cold-press paper."
- "Production supervision by Warren Wallerstein and David Hough"--t.p. verso.
- "Designed by Camilla Filancia"--t.p. verso.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- ALA Notable children's books, 1996; A Junior Literary Guild Selection.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Cited in:
- Best books for children, 6th ed.
- ISBN:
- 0152766227
- 9780152766221
- OCLC:
- 30029727
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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