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Sugarcane house : and other stories about Mr. Fat / Adrienne Bond ; illustrated by LeUyen Pham.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.B63655 Su 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bond, Adrienne, 1933-1996, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Southern States--Juvenile fiction.
- Southern States.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Southern States--Fiction.
- Storytelling--Fiction.
- Great-grandmothers--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 86 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego ; New York ; London : Harcourt Brace & Company, [1997]
- Summary:
- Ma Minnie tells her great-grandson, a first-grader, many stories about the antics of a trickster named Mr. Fat, a southerner who may or may not be real.
- Contents:
- Sugarcane house
- Mr. Fat and the wild plant man
- Mr. Fat and the raffle man
- Fortune store at your door
- Mr. Fat and the tent show
- Mr. Fat and the chain gang.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0152014462
- 9780152014469
- 0152014470
- 9780152014476
- OCLC:
- 36104252
- Online:
- Publisher description
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