It's wings that make birds fly; the story of a boy. / Sandra Weiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiner, Sandra.

Contributor:

Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006.

Tehon, Atha.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile literature.

African Americans.

African American children--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile literature.

African American children.

African Americans--New York (State)--New York.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

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

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 55 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Pantheon Books, [1968]

Notes:

Foreword by Gordon Parks.

Designed by Atha Tehon.

"'It's Wings that make you fly' - a story based on the experiences and feelings of a Negro boy and his friends - emerged from Sandra Weiner's taped conversations with them."

"Shortly after this story was written, the young boy whose life it largely portrays was killed in an accident while playing in the street."--P. [57].

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

118013