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The little tree growin' in the shade / Camille Yarbrough ; illustrated by Tyrone Geter.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.Y1955 Li 1996
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Format:
Book
Thesis/Dissertation
Author/Creator:
Yarbrough, Camille.
Contributor:
Geter, Tyrone, illustrator.
Mark, Donna, 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):
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans.
African Americans--Fiction.
United States--History--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Siblings--Fiction.
Physical Description:
64 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Other Title:
Little tree growing in the shade
Place of Publication:
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons [a division of The Putnam & Grosset Group, 1996]. (Hong Kong : Printed by South China Printing Co. (1988) Ltd.)
Summary:
A young Afro-American brother and sister learn how their people came to be enslaved, how they managed to resist efforts to strip them of their cultural identity, and all the hardships they suffered until they finally gained their freedom.
Notes:
"Designed by Donna Mark."
"Text set in Sabon."
"First Impression"
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
Banks Collection copy has binding "Reinforced for Library Use".
ISBN:
0399212043 :
OCLC:
1112465032

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