Research Catalog
Tar Beach
- Title
- Tar Beach / Faith Ringgold.
- Author
- Ringgold, Faith
- Publication
- New York, NY : Crown Publishers, Inc., [1991]
- ©1991
- Supplementary Content
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- Additional Authors
- Crown Publishers. pbl
- Description
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 32 cm.
- Summary
- A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt story of the same name.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- African American girls > Juvenile fiction
- African American families > Juvenile fiction
- Flight > Juvenile fiction
- Wishes > Juvenile fiction
- Intergenerational relations > Juvenile fiction
- Desire > Juvenile fiction
- Liberty > Juvenile fiction
- Dreams > Juvenile fiction
- Imagination > Juvenile fiction
- Prejudices > Juvenile fiction
- Home > Juvenile fiction
- City and town life > Juvenile fiction
- African American folk art > Juvenile fiction
- Artists > United States
- African Americans > Fiction
- Flight > Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION > Historical > 20th Century. > United States
- JUVENILE FICTION > People & Places > African American. > United States
- JUVENILE FICTION > Social Themes > Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
- African American families
- African American folk art
- African American girls
- Artists
- Children's stories
- City and town life
- Desire
- Dreams
- Flight
- Home
- Imagination
- Intergenerational relations
- Liberty
- Manners and customs
- Prejudices
- Wishes
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Juvenile fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
- New York (State) > New York > Harlem
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Children's stories.
- Picture books.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Authors' autographs (Provenance) – Ringgold – 1991.
- Dust jackets (Bindings) – 1991.
- Note
- Art techniques used: Vibrant paintings in the native style of african american folk art. Includes swatches of fabric pointing to the quilt story it's based on.
- Awards (note)
- Coretta Scott King Award, illustrator, 1992.
- Caldecott Honor Book, 1992.
- Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Book Award, 1993.
- Call Number
- Sc+ G 91-3
- ISBN
- 0517580306
- 9780517580301
- LCCN
- 90040410
- OCLC
- 22002688
- Author
- Ringgold, Faith, author.
- Title
- Tar Beach / Faith Ringgold.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Crown Publishers, Inc., [1991]
- Copyright Date
- ©1991
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- Coretta Scott King Award, illustrator, 1992.Caldecott Honor Book, 1992.Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Book Award, 1993.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Crown Publishers. Publisher
- Research Call Number
- Sc+ G 91-3Sc+ G 94-3JFG 92-446J PIC R