Climbing Jacob's ladder : heroes of the Bible in African-American spirituals / selected and edited by John Langstaff ; illustrated by Ashley Bryan ; piano arrangements by John Andrew Ross.

Format:

Musical score

Contributor:

Langstaff, John, 1920-2005, editor.

Bryan, Ashley, illustrator.

Ross, John Andrew, arranger.

Margaret K. McElderry Books (Firm), publisher.

Maxwell Macmillan Canada, publisher.

Maxwell Macmillan International, publisher.

Ashley Bryan Library and Archive (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirituals (Songs)--Juvenile.

Spirituals (Songs).

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Bryan, Ashley (donor) (Kislak Center copy)

Ashley Bryan Center (donor) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

1 close score ([24] pages) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Hong Kong : [printer not identified]

Place of Publication:

New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York ; Oxford ; Singapore ; Sydney: Maxwell Macmillan International, [1991]

Summary:

An illustrated collection of black spirituals about Old Testament heroes.

Contents:

Didn't It Rain?

Rock-a My Soul

We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder

Go Down, Moses

Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho

Little David, Play on Your Harp

Ezekiel Saw the Wheel

Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?

Wake Up! Jonah.

Notes:

For voice and piano.

Includes chord symbols.

"Printed in Hong Kong"--Verso of title leaf.

"The original pictures for Climbing Jacob's ladder : heroes of the Bible in African-American spirituals are tempera paintings."--Verso of title leaf.

Issued in dust jacket.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Ashley Bryan and the Ashley Bryan Center.

Kislak Center copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0689504942

9780689504945

OCLC:

23051101

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Contributor biographical information