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Jump at the sun treasury : an African American picture book collection.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ5 .J8895 2001
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
DeGross, Monalisa.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African Americans--Literary collections.
African Americans.
American literature--African American authors.
American literature.
Children's literature, American.
Genre:
Stories in rhyme.
Literary collections.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
205 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, ©2001.
Summary:
A collection of picture books about the African American experience offers verses on hands, an introduction to prayer, a horror tale, stories about a Baltimore peddler and a family Fourth of July, and biographies of Willie Mays and Alvin Ailey.
Contents:
These hands / by Hope Lynne Price; illustrated by Bryan Collier
Can I pray with my eyes open? / by Susan Taylor Brown; illustrated by Garin Baker
Say hey! A song of Willie Mays / by Peter Mandel; illustrated by Don Tate
A big, spooky house / by Donna Washington; illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers
Granddaddy's street songs / by Monalisa DeGross; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Alvin Ailey / by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Celebration! / by Jane Resh Thomas; illustrated by Raul Colón.
Notes:
Seven picture books previously published 1993-2000.
"First Edition."
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB Library of Joanna Banks" on title page.
Contains:
Price, Hope Lynne. These hands.
Taylor-Brown, Susan. Can I pray with my eyes open?
Mandel, Peter, 1957- Say hey! A song of Willie Mays.
Washington, Donna L., 1967- Big, spooky house.
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Alvin Ailey.
Thomas, Jane Resh. Celebration!
ISBN:
0786807547
9780786807543
OCLC:
50041784

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