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Captain January / by Laura E. Richards. The Little Colonel / by Annie Fellows Johnston ; with illustrations from the motion picture featuring Shirley Temple.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 6926
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Temple, Shirley, 1928-2014.
- Temple, Shirley.
- Children--Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Children.
- Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Conduct of life.
- Intergenerational relations--Juvenile fiction.
- Intergenerational relations.
- Lighthouse keepers--Juvenile fiction.
- Lighthouse keepers.
- Ship captains--Juvenile fiction.
- Ship captains.
- Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
- Orphans.
- Islands--Juvenile fiction.
- Islands.
- Students--Juvenile fiction.
- Students.
- Home schooling--Juvenile fiction.
- Home schooling.
- Kindness--Juvenile fiction.
- Kindness.
- Grandfathers--Juvenile fiction.
- Grandfathers.
- Farm life--Kentucky--Juvenile fiction.
- Farm life.
- New England--Juvenile fiction.
- New England.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Juvenile fiction.
- United States.
- Kentucky--Juvenile fiction.
- Kentucky.
- Children--Conduct of life.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Arritt, Diane Storchheim, 1955- (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [8], 3-88, [6], 3-93, [1] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Shirley Temple edition.
- Other Title:
- Little Colonel
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1959]
- Summary:
- Captain January: Orphaned Star is raised by a kindly lighthouse keeper, until the truant officer tries to take her away.
- The Little Colonel, a spunky little girl who lives on her grandfather's farm in Kentucky reunited a fragmented family after the Civil War.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Diane Storchheim") of Diane Gwen Storchheim (later Dampf; subsequently Arritt; b. 1955) in blue ink on front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 2325261
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