Jabutí the tortoise : a trickster tale from the Amazon / told and illustrated by Gerald McDermott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDermott, Gerald.

Contributor:

D'moch, Lydia, typographer.

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):

Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Folklore.

Indians of South America.

Tales--Amazon River Region.

Tales.

Turtles--Folklore.

Turtles.

Folklore--Amazon River Region.

New World vultures--Folklore.

Amazon River Region.

Genre:

Folklore.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm (Singapore : Printed and bound by Tien Wah Press)

Edition:

[1st ed.]

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Harcourt, Inc., [©2001].

Summary:

All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabuti, the tortoise, except Vulture who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.

Notes:

"The illustrations in this book were done in gouache, colored pencil, and colored ink on 300 lb. hot press Arches watercolor paper.

"The display type and text type were set in Neue Neuland Light."

"Production supervision by Sandra Grebenar and Ginger Boyer."

"Typography designed by Lydia D'moch."

"The first collection of Jabuti stories ... was compiled by Charles Frederick Hartt and published in Rio de Janeiro in 1875 under the title 'Os Mitos Amazónicas da Tartaruga'."

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has "Reinforce trade binding".

ISBN:

0152004963 :

9780152004965

OCLC:

45284561

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