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The animal family / by Randall Jarrell ; decorations by Maurice Sendak.
LIBRA PZ7.J295 An
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS3519.A86 A55 1965
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LIBRA - Tehon Collection PZ7.J295 An
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animals--Juvenile fiction.
- Animals.
- Hunters--Juvenile fiction.
- Hunters.
- Mermaids--Juvenile fiction.
- Mermaids.
- Animals--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 179 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Pantheon Books, [1965]
- Summary:
- Story of how, one by one, a man found himself a family.
- Contents:
- The hunter
- The mermaid
- The hunter brings home a Baby
- The bear
- The lynx
- The lynx and the bear bring home a boy
- The boy.
- Notes:
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "All ages"--Dust jacket.
- Newbery Honor Book, 1966.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copies 1 & 2: dust jackets retained.
- Tehon Collection copy 1 has post-it note with "AT" on front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 179309
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