Going back home : an artist returns to the South / pictures by Michele Wood ; interpreted and written by Toyomi Igus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Michele.

Contributor:

Igus, Toyomi.

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):

Wood, Michele--Juvenile literature.

Wood, Michele.

African American painters--Biography--Juvenile literature.

African American painters.

African Americans in art--Juvenile literature.

African Americans in art.

African Americans--Southern States--Juvenile literature.

African Americans.

Artists.

African Americans--Biography.

Women--Biography.

Southern States--Social life and customs.

Art appreciation.

Southern States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (Banks Collection copy)

Wood, Michele (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, California : Children's Book Press, [©1996].

Summary:

Narrative text describes the artist's paintings and their portrayal of the lives of her African American relatives in the rural American South.

Notes:

American Book Award Winner, 1997

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book (1996)

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 inscribed "To Joanna Banks. National Black Arts Festival 6/30/96 God bless you in your journeys. Michele Wood.

Banks Collection copy has "Michele Wood About the Artist" from Children's Book Press with ms. annotation laid in.

ISBN:

0892391375

9780892391370

051620288X

9780516202884

9780892391974

0892391979

OCLC:

34474692