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Ellen's broom

Title
Ellen's broom / Kelly Starling Lyons ; illustrated by Daniel Minter.
Author
Lyons, Kelly Starling.
Publication
New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2012

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Additional Authors
  • Minter, Daniel
  • Thomann, Ryan
  • G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher.
  • South China Printing Co., printer.
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill.; 28 cm
Summary
Ellen has always known that the broom hanging on her family's cabin wall is a special symbol of her parents' wedding during slave days, so she proudly carries it to the courthouse when the marriage becomes legal.
Subject
  • Marriage > Juvenile fiction
  • Brooms and brushes > Juvenile fiction
  • Slavery > Juvenile fiction
  • African Americans > Juvenile fiction
  • Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Juvenile fiction
  • African Americans > Marriage customs and rites > Juvenile fiction
  • African American families > Juvenile fiction
  • Marriage > Fiction
  • Brooms and brushes > Fiction
  • Slavery > Fiction
  • African Americans > Fiction
  • Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Fiction
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 19th Century
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
  • JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
Genre/Form
  • Picture books for children.
  • Dust jackets (Bindings) – 2013.
Note
  • "Design by Ryan Thomann"--t.p. verso.
Awards (note)
  • Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, 2013.
Call Number
Sc+ F 13-45
ISBN
  • 9780399250033 (hardback)
  • 0399250034 (hardback)
LCCN
2011047101
OCLC
731911644
Author
Lyons, Kelly Starling.
Title
Ellen's broom / Kelly Starling Lyons ; illustrated by Daniel Minter.
Imprint
New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2012 (China : South China Printing Co. Ltd.)
Awards
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, 2013.
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Added Author
Minter, Daniel, ill.
Thomann, Ryan, book designer.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher.
South China Printing Co., printer.
Research Call Number
Sc+ F 13-45
JFF 13-701
J PIC L
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