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Cut from the same cloth : American women of myth, legend, and tall tale / collected and told by Robert D. San Souci ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney ; introduction by Jane Yolen.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.1.S227 Si 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- San Souci, Robert D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--United States.
- Tales.
- Tall tales--United States.
- Tall tales.
- Women--United States--Folklore.
- Women.
- Folklore--United States.
- Women--Folklore.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Tall tales.
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Black Images Book Bazaar (Dallas, Tex.) (label) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 140 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Philomel Books, [1993]
- Summary:
- A collection of twenty stories about legendary American women, drawing from folktales, popular stories, and ballads.
- Contents:
- Women of the Northeast: The star maiden
- Bess Call
- Drop Star
- Women of the South: Molly Cottontail
- Annie Christmas
- Susanna and Simon
- Women of the Midwest: Sal Fink
- Sweet Betsey from Pike
- Old Sally Cato
- Women of the Southwest: Pale-faced lightning
- Pohaha
- Sister fox and brother coyote
- Women of the West: Hekeke
- Otoonah
- Hiiaka.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-140).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has bookseller's label ("BLACK IMAGES BOOK BAZAAR P.O. Box 41059 Dallas, Texas 75241 ...") on verso of back free endpaper.
- Banks Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: San Souci, Robert D. Cut from the same cloth.
- ISBN:
- 0399219870
- 9780399219870
- OCLC:
- 25411107
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