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Tops & bottoms / adapted and illustrated by Janet Stevens.
Van Pelt Library PZ8.1.S8572 To 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevens, Janet.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brer Rabbit (Trickster)--Juvenile fiction.
- Brer Rabbit.
- Brer Rabbit (Trickster).
- Tricksters--Juvenile fiction.
- Tricksters.
- Gardening--Juvenile fiction.
- Gardening.
- Vegetables--Juvenile fiction.
- Vegetables.
- Hares--Folklore--Juvenile fiction.
- Hares.
- Bears--Folklore--Juvenile fiction.
- Bears.
- Laziness--Juvenile fiction.
- Laziness.
- Work ethic--Juvenile fiction.
- Work ethic.
- Deception--Juvenile fiction.
- Deception.
- Animals--Juvenile fiction.
- Animals.
- African Americans--Folklore--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Folklore--United States--Juvenile fiction.
- Folklore.
- African Americans--Folklore.
- Folklore--United States.
- Hares--Folklore.
- Bears--Folklore.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Folklore--United States.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Folk tales.
- Folk tales -- 1995.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1995.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- (Singapore : Printed and bound by Tien Wah Press)
- Other Title:
- Tops and bottoms
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego ; New York ; London : Harcourt Brace & Company, [©1995]
- Summary:
- Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Frances Sternhagen.
- Credits:
- Music by Wayne Abravanel.
- Notes:
- Book has vertical layout.
- Some issues accompanied by CD published by Spoken Arts, Inc., Holmes, N.Y., ℗1997; music by Wayne Abravanel; narrator, Frances Sternagen.
- "The illustrations in this book were done in watercolor, colored pencil, and gesso on paper made by hand by Ray Tomasso, Denver, Colorado. ... The text type was set in Cochin by Thompson Type, San Diego, California. Color separations were made by Bright Arts, Ltd., Singapore. This book was printed with soya-based inks on Leykam recycled paper, which contains more than 20 percent postconsumer waste and has a total recycled content of at least 50 percent. Production supervision by Warren Wallerstein and Ginger Boyer. Designed by Linda Peters"--Title page verso.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Caldecott Honor Book, 1996.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Tehon Collection copy has CD wanting.
- ISBN:
- 0152928510
- 9780152928513
- 0152010343
- 9780152010348
- OCLC:
- 27936542
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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