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Sylvester and the magic pebble / by William Steig.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ7.S8177 Sy 1969
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steig, William, 1907-2003.
- Series:
- Windmill paperback.
- A Windmill paperback
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wit and humor, Juvenile.
- Donkeys--Juvenile fiction.
- Donkeys.
- Magic--Juvenile fiction.
- Magic.
- Missing children--Juvenile fiction.
- Missing children.
- Families--Juvenile fiction.
- Families.
- Animals--Juvenile fiction.
- Animals.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Windmill Books/Wanderer : [Simon & Schuster, Inc.], [©1969]
- Summary:
- In a moment of fright Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again.
- Notes:
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- 1970 Caldecott Medal winner.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy has photoreproduction of Caldecott Medal on front cover.
- ISBN:
- 0671960229
- OCLC:
- 968682323
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