God bless the child / words and music by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959, composer, lyricist.

Contributor:

Herzog, Arthur, Jr., composer, lyricist.

Pinkney, Jerry, illustrator.

Adamec, Matt, typographer.

HarperCollins (Firm), publisher.

Amistad (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):

Children's songs--United States--Texts.

Children's songs.

Spirituals (Songs)--Juvenile literature.

Spirituals (Songs).

Songs.

United States.

Genre:

Spirituals (Songs)

Juvenile works.

Texts.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies)

Physical Description:

[34] pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 audio disc (digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : HarperCollinsPublishers : Amistad, [2004]

System Details:

digital optical

audio file CD audio

Summary:

A swing spiritual based on the proverb "God blessed the child that's got his own."

Participant:

Words and Music by Arthur Herzog, Jr. and Billie Holiday: illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.

Notes:

"Illustrations copyright ©2004 by Jerry Pinkney"--verso of title page.

Manufactured in China--verso of title page.

"Typography by Matt Ademec"--verso of title page.

Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Illustrator, Honor, 2005

Local Notes:

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

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy 1: dust jacket retained.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy 2 is softcover edition. No CD.

ISBN:

0060287977

9780060287979

0060294876

9780060294878

OCLC:

45230462

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