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Dinner at Aunt Connie's house / Faith Ringgold.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.R4726 Di 1996
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ringgold, Faith, author, illustrator.
Contributor:
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans.
Dinners and dining--Juvenile fiction.
Dinners and dining.
African Americans--Fiction.
Dinners and dining--Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
[32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Edition:
[First Hyperion paperback edition]
Place of Publication:
New York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 1996.
Summary:
Dinner at Aunt Connie's is even more special than usual when Melody meets not only her new adopted cousin but twelve inspiring African-American women, who step out of their portraits and join the family for dinner.
Notes:
"Ages 5-9"--Page 4 of cover.
1994 NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy has sticker "By the Creator of the Caldecott Honor Book Tar Beach" on cover.
ISBN:
0786811501 :
9780786811502
OCLC:
37419973

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