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Moaning bones : African-American ghost stories / retold by Jim Haskins ; with illustrations by Felicia Marshall.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.1.H267 Mo 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haskins, James, 1941-2005, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Folklore.
- African Americans.
- Tales--United States.
- Tales.
- Ghost stories.
- Folklore--United States.
- Ghosts--Folklore.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Ghost stories.
- Folklore.
- Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 1998.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 61, [3] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard/Morrow, [©1998].
- Summary:
- More than fifteen tales from the oral tradition probably originally recorded in the 1920s and 1930s such as "The Haunted Stateroom," "Black Tom," and "The Ghost in the Back Seat."
- Contents:
- Big Fraid and Li'l Fraid
- The Ghost in the backseat
- Black Tom
- You shot me once
- "Cinderella" and the buried treasure
- The Ghost yearling
- Find my child!
- The Ghost of Gabe
- The Ghost owl
- The Haunted stateroom
- The Hole they couldn't fill
- Looks like Jesus
- Old Hy-Ty
- The Lake of the Dead
- The Moaning bones
- Old Moccasin's ghost
- The Mysterious pile of quilts.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0688160212 :
- 9780688160210
- OCLC:
- 38573810
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