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Why the tides ebb and flow / Joan Chase Bowden ; illustrated by Marc Brown.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.1.B665 Wh 1979
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowden, Joan Chase.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--Juvenile fiction.
- Folklore.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Folk literature.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [40] unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1979].
- Summary:
- In this folktale explaining why the sea has tides, an old woman threatens to pull the rock from the hole in the ocean floor if Sky Spirit does not honor his promise to give her shelter.
- Notes:
- "Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books"
- ALA Notable Book.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bowden, Joan Chase. Why the tides ebb and flow.
- ISBN:
- 0395283787
- 9780395283783
- 0395549523 (pbk.)
- 9780395549520
- OCLC:
- 4857886
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