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The hundred penny box / Sharon Bell Mathis ; illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.M4284 Hu 1986 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mathis, Sharon Bell, author.
- Series:
- Puffin Newbery Library.
- Puffin Newbery Library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction.
- Grandmothers.
- Families--Juvenile fiction.
- Families.
- Great-aunts--Fiction.
- Old age--Fiction.
- Family life--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription, copy 2) (Banks Collection copies)
- Mathis, Sharon Bell (autograph, December 3, 1989) (Banks Collection copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 47, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Japan : Dai Nihon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y., U.S.A.] : Puffin Books, 1986, 1975.
- Summary:
- Michael's love for his one-hundred-year-old great-great-aunt, who lives with his family, leads him to intercede with his mother who wants to toss out all of Aunt Dew's old things.
- Notes:
- "First published by Viking Penguin Inc. 1975"--verso of title page
- "First published in Puffin Books 1986"--verso of title page
- "Set in Palatino"--verso of title page.
- "Text copyright © Sharon Bell Mathis, 1975"--verso of title page.
- "Illustrations copyright © Leo and Diane Dillon, 1975"--verso of title page.
- "Printed in Japan by Dai Nippon Printing, Co."--verso of title page.
- Newberry Medal Honor Book, 1976.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy 1 has stamp "Property of: Anacostia Museum Smithsonian Institution, 1901 Fort Place, SE"
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy 1 has card (6 x 10 cm.) with name and address of Sharon Bell Mathis written in ms. laid in.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy 2 has inscription from author to Joanna Banks: "Dear Joanna --- Black blessings! I am honored to meet you --- Please stay strong, stay beautiful. Sharon Bell Mathis December 3, 1989"
- Contains:
- 100 penny box.
- ISBN:
- 0140321691
- 9780140321692
- 9780812451849
- 0812451848
- 9780142407028
- 014240702X
- 0808584650
- 9780808584650
- OCLC:
- 13268755
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