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Mirandy and Brother Wind / by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
Van Pelt Library PZ7.M478693 Mi 1996
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cakewalk (Dance)--Juvenile fiction.
- Cakewalk (Dance).
- Winds--Juvenile fiction.
- Winds.
- Dance--Juvenile fiction.
- Dance.
- African American children--Juvenile fiction.
- African American children.
- Determination (Personality trait) in children--Juvenile fiction.
- Determination (Personality trait) in children.
- Dance--Fiction.
- Winds--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Picture books for children
- Picture books for children -- Juvenile fiction.
- Coretta Scott King Award (illustrator) Winner -- 1989.
- Caldecott Medal Honor book -- 1989.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Picture books.
- Picture books for children.
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- First Dragonfly books edition
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dragonfly Books/Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.
- Summary:
- Who will be Mirandy's partner for the junior cakewalk?
- To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind to make him be her partner.
- To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in hardcover as a Borzoi Book by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1988"--Title page verso.
- Includes recipe for a cake.
- Caldecott Honors; Coretta Scott King Award; American Library Association Notables; Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Sciences.
- Coretta Scott King Award, illustrator, 1989.
- Caldecott Honor Book, 1989
- Other Format:
- Online version: McKissack, Pat, 1944- Mirandy and Brother Wind.
- ISBN:
- 9780394887654
- 0394887654
- 9780394987651
- 0394987659
- 9780679883333
- 0679883339
- 0613024230
- 9780613024235
- 9780780768413
- 0780768418
- 9781442050709
- 1442050705
- OCLC:
- 36171577
- Publisher Number:
- 99990749792
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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