Bo Rabbit smart for true : tall tales from the Gullah / retold by Priscilla Jaquith ; drawings by Ed Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaquith, Priscilla, author.

Contributor:

Young, Ed, illustrator, illustrator.

Stoddard, Albert Henry, 1872-1954.

Emrich, Duncan, 1908-1977, compiler.

Stevenson, Nanette, 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):

African Americans--Georgia--Folklore.

African Americans.

Tales--Georgia.

Tales.

African Americans--Folklore.

Folklore--Georgia.

Folklore--United States.

Georgia.

Genre:

Folklore.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

71, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 x 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Philomel Books, [1995].

Summary:

Animal tales drawn from the folktales of the Gullah people of the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia.

Contents:

Bo Rabbit smart for true

Alligator's Sunday suit

Cooter's wing

Bo Rabbit's hide-and-seek

Manners for true

Rattlesnake's word.

Notes:

"Original edition published in 1981"--T. p verso.

"Revised edition published in 1995 by Philomel Books, a division of The Putnam & Grosset Group ..."

Designed in a vertical format with text read with binding up. Four illustrations in a column to the left and text on the right.

"Lettering by David Gatti."

"Book designed by Nanette Stevenson and Donna Mark."

"Text set in New Baskerville."

These tales were recorded in 1949 for the Library of Congress which in 1955 issued a phonodisc under title: Animal tales told in the Gullah dialect by Albert H. Stoddard of Savannah, Georgia, edited by D.B.M. Emrich.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-71).

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy is "First Impression".

Banks Collection copy binding "Reinforces for Library Use".

Related Work:

Emrich, Duncan, 1908-1977, Animal tales told in the Gullah dialect by Albert H. Stoddard of Savannah, Georgia., compiler.

ISBN:

0399226680 :

9780399226687

OCLC:

29667831