Sweet Clara and the freedom quilt / by Deborah Hopkinson ; paintings by James Ransome.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopkinson, Deborah.

Contributor:

Ransome, James, illustrator.

Greenstein, Mina, designer.

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):

Slavery--Juvenile fiction.

Slavery.

Quilts--Juvenile fiction.

Quilts.

Slavery--Fiction.

Quilts--Fiction.

Aphasia.

Psycholinguistics.

Medical Subjects:

Aphasia.

Psycholinguistics.

Local Subjects:

Slavery--Juvenile fiction.

Quilts--Juvenile fiction.

Genre:

Picture books.

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House, Inc., ©1993].

Summary:

A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."

"Book design by Mina Greenstein."

A Children's Book-of-the-Month Club Selection.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Hopkinson, Deborah. Sweet Clara and the freedom quilt.

ISBN:

0679823115

9780679823117

067992311X

9780679923114

0329067605

9780329067601

0582022215

9780582022218

9781413161212

1413161219

0679874720

9780679874720

OCLC:

23286420

Online:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

http://www.jamesransome.com

http://people.whitman.edu/%7Ehopkinda/

http://www.deborahhopkinson.com/