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What's the hurry, Fox? : and other animal stories / collected by Zora Neale Hurston ; illustrated by Bryan Collier ; adapted by Joyce Carol Thomas.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.1.T3765 Wh 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Joyce Carol, adapter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--United States.
- Tales.
- African Americans--Folklore.
- African Americans.
- Folklore--United States.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Manufacture:
- Hong Kong : South China Printing Co.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2004.
- Summary:
- Presents a volume of pourquoi tales collected by Zora Neale Hurston from her field research in the Gulf states in the 1920s.
- Contents:
- "Why the buzzard has no home" / Armetta Jones
- "What's the hurry, fox?" "Why porpoise's tail is on crosswise," "Why flies get the first taste" / M.C. Ford
- "Why donkey has long ears" / Nathaniel Burney
- "Why the dog hates the cat" / Mack C. Ford
- "Why the waves have whitecaps" / Lily May Beale
- "Why frog got eyes and mole got tail" / M.C. Yard.
- Notes:
- "Text copyright ©2004 by Zora Neale Hurston Trust"--verso of title page
- "Adapter's copyright ©2004 by Joyce Carol Thomas"--verso of title page.
- "Illustrations copyright ©2004. by Bryan Collier"--verso of title page.
- "Manufactured in China by South China Printing Company Ltd"--verso of title page
- "Typography by Matt Adamec"--verso of title page.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy retains dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 0060006447
- 9780060006440
- 0060006439
- 9780060006433
- OCLC:
- 52251423
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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