A starlit somersault downhill / by Nancy Willard ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willard, Nancy.

Contributor:

Pinkney, Jerry, illustrator.

Bash, Barbara, calligrapher.

Tehon, Atha.

Little, Brown and Company, publisher.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bears--Juvenile poetry.

Bears.

Rabbits--Juvenile poetry.

Rabbits.

Hibernation--Juvenile poetry.

Hibernation.

Winter--Juvenile poetry.

Winter.

Sleep--Juvenile poetry.

Sleep.

Caves--Juvenile poetry.

Caves.

Friendship--Juvenile poetry.

Friendship.

Agitation (Psychology)--Juvenile poetry.

Agitation (Psychology).

Play--Juvenile poetry.

Play.

Forests and forestry--Juvenile poetry.

Forests and forestry.

Stories in rhyme.

Bears--Fiction.

Rabbits--Fiction.

Winter--Fiction.

Genre:

Stories in rhyme.

Juvenile works.

Poetry.

Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1993.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (inscription) (Tehon Collection copy)

Pinkney, Jerry (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Toronto ; London : Little, Brown and Company, [©1993]

Summary:

Having made a plan to spend the winter with Bear napping in a cozy cave, Rabbit finds himself too energetic to sleep and decides to join the world outside.

Notes:

"First Edition."

"Calligraphy by Barbara Bash."--Title page verso.

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.

Tehon Collection copy inscribed to Atha with illustration by Jerry Pinkney.

ISBN:

0316941131

9780316941136

0316941298

9780316941297

OCLC:

24010468