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Mirandy and Brother Wind / by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.

Van Pelt Library PZ7.M478693 Mi 1996
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017, author.
Contributor:
Pinkney, Jerry, illustrator.
Award Winning and Notable Children's and Young Adult Books (University of Pennsylvania)
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

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