Why the sun and the moon live in the sky : an African folktale : production material.

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Why the sun and the moon live in the sky : an African folktale : production material.

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Felt pen & pencil dummy with holograph & corrected text proof, ink & wash illustration with separations for jacket, ink illustration for endpapers, ink illustration covers, ink & wash illustrations with separations, 1 sheet pastel & pencil studies, 1 sheet proof for jacket, cardboard cut outs used for A.C.I. film. "A legend of eastern Nigeria about the Sun and Moon who lived on land until the sea came to visit them and the inundation forced them up into the sky."

Illustrations: 27 items.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Dayrell, Elphinstone, 1869-1917

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Blair Lent was born January 22, 1930 in Boston Massachusetts. He graduated from the Museum of Fine Arts School of Art in 1953 and later studied art in Switzerland and Italy. In the 1950s, he worked as an assistant art director and creative designer and in the 1960s began illustrating and writing children's books. Many of his ideas for books and illustrations come from the folklore of Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa, and his own travel experiences. He received the Caldecott Medal in 1973 for The...