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Anansi does the impossible! : an Ashanti tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Lisa Desimini.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.1.A213 Al 1997 copy 2
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.1.A213 Al 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aardema, Verna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anansi (Legendary character)--Legends.
- Anansi (Legendary character).
- Folklore--Africa, West.
- Folklore.
- West Africa.
- Genre:
- Picture books.
- Legends.
- Folklore.
- Children's nonfiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- [32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©1997.
- Summary:
- Anansi and his wife outsmart the Sky God and win back the beloved folktales of their people. Peppered with Verna Aardema's trademark ideophones--words that mimic actual sounds--this book makes an ideal read-aloud. Brilliantly realized characters and West African flavor come together in Desimini's extraordinary collage illustrations. Includes a glossary of West African terms and pronunciations. Full color.
- Notes:
- "An Anne Schwartz book."
- "Retold from Verna Aardema's book, The Sky God Stories, published by Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, 1960 ... The previous source is Robert S. Rattray's book Akan-Ahanti Folktales, published by Oxford, London, 1930"--Preliminary page.
- "Book design by Ann Bobco."
- "The text of this book is set in Memphis Bold."
- "The art for this book was prepared with oil glazing, cut paper, and other materials. The spiders were made out of black velvet paper."
- "First Edition."
- Includes glossary of terms.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy 1 has pocket and card of Prince George's County Memorial Library pasted to back free endpaper. Back cover has stamp "No Longer the Property of PGCML".
- Banks Collection copy 2: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 068981092X :
- 9780689810923
- 0689839332
- 9780689839337
- OCLC:
- 34775993
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