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Author Kurtz, Jane, author.

Title In the small, small night / by Jane Kurtz ; pictures by Rachel Isadora.

Publication Info. New York : Greenwillow Books, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Easy Kurtz In 2005    Available  ---  Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Edition 1st ed.
Description 28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
age Children
Summary In the middle of the night the world can seem huge and frightening, especially when you've just moved far from home. On Abena and Kofi's first night in America, it is late and it is dark and they are up worrying. What if a giant lizard or a slender-snouted crocodile crawled into their suitcases? What if the people in their new school laugh at them? What if they forget Grandmother and their cousins, now that they are an ocean away? But Abena knows a secret to help them. It is a secret that can make the world and the night seem small again. She reaches for her new flashlight and turns it on. She says to her little brother, Kofi, "Pretend this is the moon. Close your eyes." And then she begins...
Audience Ages 4-8.
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject Anansi (Legendary character) -- Juvenile fiction.
Anansi (Legendary character)
Siblings -- Juvenile fiction.
Siblings.
Immigrant children -- Juvenile fiction.
Immigrant children.
Ghanaian Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Ghanaian Americans.
Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction.
Storytelling.
Folklore -- Ghana -- Juvenile fiction.
Folklore.
Ghana.
Wisdom -- Juvenile fiction.
Wisdom.
Perseverance (Ethics) -- Juvenile fiction.
Perseverance (Ethics)
Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Picture books.
Picture books.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Fiction.
Added Author Isadora, Rachel, illustrator.
ISBN 0066238137 (library binding)
9780066238135 (library binding)
0066238145 (trade)
9780066238142 (trade)

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