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Nappy hair / by Carolivia Herron ; illustrated by Joe Cepeda.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.H43225 Nap 1997
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.H43225 Nap 1997 copy 2
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Herron, Carolivia, author.
Contributor:
Cepeda, Joe, illustrator.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher.
Random House (Firm), distributor.
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):
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans.
Hair--Juvenile fiction.
Hair.
African Americans--Fiction.
Hair--Fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Distribution:
New York : Distributed by Random House, Inc.
Place of Publication:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [1997]
Summary:
Various people at a backyard picnic offer their comments on a young girl's tightly curled, "nappy" hair.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy 1 has newspaper clipping with comic strip (Jump start by Robb Armstrong for 22 May 1999) laid in; printed paper sheet with discussion questions for this work laid in.
Banks Collection copy 1: dust jacket retained.
Banks Collection copy 2 has illegible stamp (struck through) on back pastedown.
Banks Collection copy 2: dust jacket retained; paper label with printed shelf-mark affixed to spine of dust jacket.
ISBN:
0679879374
9780679879374
0679979379
9780679979371
0679894454
9780679894452
OCLC:
34243921

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