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A season for mangoes / by Regina Hanson ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.H1989 Se 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanson, Regina.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stage fright--Juvenile fiction.
- Stage fright.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Juvenile fiction.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction.
- Grandmothers.
- Storytelling--Juvenile fiction.
- Storytelling.
- Black people--Jamaica--Juvenile fiction.
- Black people.
- Jamaica--Juvenile fiction.
- Jamaica.
- Stage fright--Fiction.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Fiction.
- Grandmothers--Fiction.
- Storytelling--Fiction.
- Blacks--Jamaica--Fiction.
- Jamaica--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Picture books collection.
- Life issues collection.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Clarion Books [a Houghton Mifflin Company imprint, ©2005].
- Summary:
- In Jamaica, Sareen is concerned about participating in her first sit-up, a celebration of the life of her recently deceased grandmother, but discovers that sharing her stories of Nana's passion for mangoes helps lift the sadness.
- Notes:
- "The illustrations were executed in oil paint on Fabriano watercolor paper."
- "The text was set in 16-point OPTIPPowell-Oldstyle."
- Américas Award, Honorable Mention, 2005
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 061815972X
- 9780618159727
- OCLC:
- 54372738
- Publisher Number:
- 9780618159727
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