Down home at Miss Dessa's / written by Bettye Stroud ; illustrated by Felicia Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stroud, Bettye, 1938-

Contributor:

Marshall, Felicia, illustrator.

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):

Sisters--Juvenile fiction.

Sisters.

Neighborliness--Juvenile fiction.

Neighborliness.

African Americans--Juvenile fiction.

African Americans.

Old age--Juvenile fiction.

Old age.

Sisters--Fiction.

Neighborliness--Fiction.

African Americans--Fiction.

Old age--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Edition:

[1st ed.]

Place of Publication:

New York : Lee & Low Books Inc., [©1996].

Summary:

In the South, in the 1940s, two young African-American sisters spend the day caring for an elderly neighbor.

Notes:

"Book Design by Tania Garcia."

"The text is set in 14 point Garamond."

"The illustrations are rendered in an acrylic and acrylic gloss medium on watercolor paper."

"First Edition."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1880000393 :

9781880000397

OCLC:

34410972