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The Jewel Fish of Karnak / Graeme Base.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PZ7.B29 Jel 2011 Cook copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Base, Graeme.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Toy and movable books--Specimens.
- Toy and movable books.
- Egypt--History--Juvenile fiction.
- Egypt.
- Robbers and outlaws--Fiction.
- Kings, queens, rulers, etc--Fiction.
- Magic--Fiction.
- Egypt--History--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Picture books for children.
- Picture books.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cook, Lucy (donor) (Cook Collection copy)
- Cook, Richard (donor) (Cook Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2011.
- Summary:
- Two thieves, caught stealing from an Egyptian market, are brought before the Cat Pharaoh, who agrees to pardon them if they bring back a treasure that was stolen from her, without taking anything else and without getting the precious Jewel Fish wet.
- Notes:
- Map on verso of dust jacket.
- Includes on the back paste down endpaper "a special magical fish with a secret code to decipher" by moving the discs.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Lucy and Richard Cook Children's Book Collection presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018.
- Kislak Cook Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 9781419700866
- 1419700863
- OCLC:
- 700729132
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