Tailypo : a newfangled tall tale / retold by Angela Shelf Medearis ; illustrated by Sterling Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Medearis, Angela Shelf, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Brown, Sterling, 1963- illustrator.

Holiday House (Firm), publisher.

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):

Folklore--United States--Juvenile literature.

Folklore.

Folklore--Texas.

African Americans--Folklore.

United States.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Holiday House, [1996]

Summary:

On a farm in the Texas Hill Country, a young boy confronts a strange critter that tries to steal his family's last meal. A variation on the folktale about a monster that leaves its tail behind in the cabin of an African American boy.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0823412490

9780823412495

OCLC:

33898359