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Shadow / translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown from the French of Blaise Cendrars.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PQ2605.E55 F4713 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961.
- Standardized Title:
- Féticheuse. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Shades and shadows--Juvenile poetry.
- Shades and shadows.
- Africa--Juvenile poetry.
- Africa.
- Children's poetry, French.
- Shadows--Poetry.
- Africa--Poetry.
- French poetry.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Children's poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [40] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [1st Aladdin books ed.]
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Aladdin Books Macmillan Publishing Company, [1986, ©1982].
- Summary:
- Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.
- Notes:
- "First Aladdin Books edition 1986."
- Art techniques used:Colorful Gouache paintings.
- Translation of: La Féticheuse.
- Winner of the Caldecott Medal.
- ALA Notable Book
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0689710844
- 9780689710841
- OCLC:
- 13329455
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