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Tree of hope / Amy Littlesugar ; [illustrated by] Floyd Cooper.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.L7362 Tr 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Littlesugar, Amy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Juvenile fiction.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
- Depressions--1929--Juvenile fiction.
- Depressions.
- Actors--Juvenile fiction.
- Actors.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Actors and actresses--Fiction.
- Depressions--1929--Fiction.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (State)--New York--Harlem.
- Afro-Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- Harlem (New York, NY)--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Afro-Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- Actors and actresses--Fiction.
- Depressions--1929--Fiction.
- Harlem (New York, NY)--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Picture books.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Manufacture:
- Hong Kong : South China Printing Co.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Philomel Books, 1999.
- Summary:
- Florrie's daddy used to be a stage actor in Harlem before the Depression forced the Lafayette Theater to close, but he gets a chance to act again when Orson Welles reopens the theater to stage an all-black version of Macbeth.
- Notes:
- "Text copyright ©1999 by Amy Liottlesugar"--colophon.
- "Illustrations copyright ©1999 by Floyd Cooper"--colophon
- "Printed in Hong Kong by South China Printing Co."--colophon
- "Book design by Donna Mark. Text set in Bembo Semibold"--colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 36).
- 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.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Littlesugar, Amy. Tree of hope.
- ISBN:
- 0399233008
- 9780399233005
- OCLC:
- 38468560
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