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Cassie's word quilt

Names the people and objects that make a girl's New York City apartment, school, and neighborhood special.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ringgold, Faith
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Vocabulary > Juvenile.
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Summary:	Names the people and objects that make a girl's New York City apartment, school, and neighborhood special.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill ; 30 cm.
ISBN:	0375812008
Author Notes:	Faith Ringgold was born in Harlem in 1930. She received a degree in art education from the City College of New York and was an art teacher long before she became a professional artist. She is best known for her "painted story quilts," some of which hang in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Tar Beach , Ringgold's first book for children, won the Coretta Scott King Award for illustration and was named a Caldecott Honor Book. Ringgold is now a professor of art at the University of California at San Diego. She lives in California and in New Jersey. From the Board edition.