Pumpkins : a story for a field / written by Mary Lyn Ray ; illustrated by Barry Root.

Author/Creator:

Ray, Mary Lyn.

Edition:

[1st ed.]

Publication:

San Diego ; New York ; London : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [©1992]. (Singapore : Printed and bound by Tien Wah Press)

Format/Description:

Book
[32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.

Subjects:

Conservation of natural resources -- Juvenile fiction.
Conservationists -- Juvenile fiction.
Pumpkin -- Juvenile fiction.
Conservation of natural resources
Conservationists.
Pumpkin.

Childrens subjects:

Conservation of natural resources -- Fiction.
Conservationists -- Fiction.
Pumpkin -- Fiction.

Form/Genre:

Fiction.
Juvenile works.

Place of Publication:

United States California San Diego.
United States New York (State) New York.
England London.
Singapore.

Summary:

A man harvests and sells a bountiful crop of pumpkins so that he will be able to preserve the field from developers.

Notes:

"A Gulliver green book."
"The illustrations in this book were done in watercolor and gouache in D'Arches 140 lb. hot-press watercolor paper."
"Production supervision by Warren Wallerstein and Cheryl Kennedy"--t.p. verso.
"Designed by Michael Farmer"--t.p. verso.
Designed by Atha Tehon.

Local notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
Tehon, Susan (donor)

Penn Chronology:

1992

Contributor:

Root, Barry, illustrator.
Wallerstein, Warren.
Kennedy, Cheryl.
Farmer, Michael.
Tehon, Atha.
Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

ISBN:

0152522522
9780152522520

OCLC:

22389004

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