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I want to be free / by Joseph Slate ; illustrated by E. B. Lewis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.3.S629 Iw 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slate, Joseph.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Juvenile fiction.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slavery--Juvenile fiction.
- Slavery.
- Enslaved persons--Fiction.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- Stories in rhyme.
- Picture books.
- Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
- Freedom--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Slaves--Juvenile fiction.
- Genre:
- Picture books for children.
- Juvenile fiction.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Picture books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : G. P. Putnam's Sons [a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, ©2009].
- Summary:
- Based on a sacred Buddhist tale as related in Rudyard Kipling's novel "Kim," tells of an escaped slave who rescues an abandoned baby from slave hunters.
- Notes:
- "Design by Richard Amari."
- "Text set in ITC Cushing."
- "The art was done in watercolor on paper."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retain.
- Banks Collection copy has "Reinforced Binding".
- ISBN:
- 9780399243424:
- 0399243429
- OCLC:
- 180689960
- Online:
- For the EconKids book review see
- Publisher description
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