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King Long Shanks / Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Victoria Chess.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PZ8.Y78 Ki 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yolen, Jane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales.
- Frogs--Juvenile fiction.
- Frogs.
- Frogs--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- Singapore : Printed and bound by Tien Wah Press.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego ; New York ; London : Harcourt Brace & Company, [©1998]
- Summary:
- Although he hates their poor poetry, a frog king agrees to let two flattering scoundrels create an outfit for him that will show off his fine, long, strong legs and test the loyalty of his subjects.
- Notes:
- Retelling of: The emperor's new clothes.
- "The illustrations in this book were done in Winsor & Newton liquid watercolors, Schmeincke regular watercolors, Prisma pencils, and Rotring technical inks and pens on Langton water color paper by Daler & Rowney."--T.p. verso.
- "Designed by Linda Lockowitz"--t.p. verso.
- 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: Yolen, Jane. King Long Shanks.
- ISBN:
- 0152000135
- 9780152000134
- OCLC:
- 31867036
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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