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The picture-poetry book. By Gertrude Parthenia McBrown ; illustrated by Lois Mailou Jones.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PS595.C5 M342 1968
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McBrown, Gertrude Parthenia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 37, [1] pages illustrations 24 cm
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D. C., The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1968.
- Contents:
- The elf-man
- The paint-pot fairy
- The kind witch
- The wise owl
- Thanksgiving turkey
- A painter
- Jack Frost
- Fairy snow-flakes
- Coasting
- My Christmas tree
- The snow man
- The bath
- Elizabeth Eliza
- A lawyer
- She's sick
- Lunch
- Easter bunny
- The voice of spring
- Pussy willows
- Fairy songs
- Busy fairies
- Dance of the fairies
- The rainbow
- Happy fairies
- My wish
- Brownies
- Brown mouse
- Kitty's song
- Fat pig
- My dog
- Bubbles
- Who lives here?
- You will hear
- Fire-flies
- Dream time
- Lullaby.
- Notes:
- "This Picture-Poetry book has been interesting and useful, and has been used widely in its original limited edition ... it can be read aloud by adults for children to listen, when they have not learned to read, while the picture and the poem tell the rest of the story."--Introduction.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McBrown, Gertrude Parthenia. Picture-poetry book.
- OCLC:
- 1088120
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