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Let's read aloud : stories and poems / selected by Ruth Gagliardo ; illustrated by Valenti Angelo.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gagliardo, Ruth, compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's literature, American.
- Children's literature, English.
- Recitations.
- Literature--Collections.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition
- Place of Publication:
- New York : J. B. Lippincott Company, [1962]
- Summary:
- A selection of poems, short stories, and excerpts from longer works by a variety of authors.
- Contents:
- Indian
- Ambassador to the enemy
- The open road
- The shepherd
- Mountain born
- Digging for treasure
- Janey takes up sports
- Dreams
- Seek-no-further
- The elephant's child
- The blind colt
- Little boys of Texas
- The glorious whitewasher
- Meet the highwayman
- The axe has cut the forest down
- The buried leaf
- The crystal cornerstone
- The magic fishbone
- The plain princess
- The new world
- Thanksgiving day
- A world to come
- Battle tactics
- The best Christmas
- For Christmas.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy retains dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 1420161
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