Precious and the Boo Hag / Patricia C. McKissack, and Onawumi Jean Moss ; illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017, author.

Moss, Onawumi Jean, author.

Contributor:

Brooker, Kyrsten, illustrator.

Wade, Lee, 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):

Courage--Juvenile fiction.

Courage.

Sick--Juvenile fiction.

Sick.

Monsters--Juvenile fiction.

Monsters.

African Americans--Juvenile fiction.

African Americans.

Monsters--Fiction.

Courage--Fiction.

Sick--Fiction.

African Americans--Fiction.

Genre:

Picture books.

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Picture books for children.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[34] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First Edition

Place of Publication:

New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©2005.

Summary:

Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about.

Notes:

"An Anne Schwartz book."

"Book design by Lee Wade and Jessica Sonkin."

"The text for this book is set in Minion."

"The illustrations for this book are rendered in collage and oil paints.

"First Edition"

Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended

Emphasis on Reading Award.

School Library Journal Best Books of the Year.

American Library Association Notable Book for Children.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0689851944 :

9780689851940

1415577803

9781415577806

OCLC:

49031834

Publisher Number:

9780689851940

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