Why the sky is far away : a Nigerian folktale / retold by Mary-Joan Gerson ; pictures by Carla Golembe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerson, Mary-Joan, author.

Contributor:

Golembe, Carla, illustrator.

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):

Folklore--Nigeria.

Folklore.

Nigeria.

Mythology--Nigeria--Juvenile literature.

Local Subjects:

Mythology--Nigeria--Juvenile literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm

Edition:

[First paperback edition]

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, [1995]

Summary:

The sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat, but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away.

Notes:

"The pictures in this book are monotypes, or one-of-a-kind prints. The process is a combination of painting and printmaking. A painting is made using oil-based inks on a piece of Plexiglas. Then while the painting is still wet, it is transferred to paper by means of an etching press. After the print is dry, it is often worked into again with oil pastels, colored pencils, or gold or silver Japanese tea chest paper."

New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0316308749

9780316308748

0780750810

9780780750814

0316308528

9780316308526

OCLC:

33009373