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The village of round and square houses / Ann Grifalconi.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.1.G874 Vi 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grifalconi, Ann, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--Cameroon--Juvenile literature.
- Folklore.
- Africa--Juvenile fiction.
- Africa.
- Folklore--Cameroon.
- Cameroon.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ... : Little, Brown and Company, [1986]
- Summary:
- A grandmother explains to her listeners why in their village on the side of a volcano the men live in square houses and the women in round ones.
- Notes:
- Art techniques used: Soft pastels in vivid colors.
- Caldecott Honor Book, 1987.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0316328626
- 9780316328623
- 155592929X
- 9781555929299
- 0329044753
- 0758701608
- 9780329044756
- 9780758701602
- 9780316328593
- 0316328596
- OCLC:
- 12692705
- Publisher Number:
- RAC 326
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