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Meet Miss Fancy

Ten-year-old African American boy wants to welcome the circus elephant named Miss Fancy to her new home in a nearby park, but he is disappointed to see a sign: "No Colored Allowed"

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Latham, Irene (Author)
Other Authors:	Holyfield, John (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2019]
Subjects:	African Americans > Juvenile fiction. Children's stories. Picture books. Historical fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:	Ten-year-old African American boy wants to welcome the circus elephant named Miss Fancy to her new home in a nearby park, but he is disappointed to see a sign: "No Colored Allowed"
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN:	9780399546686 0399546685
Author Notes:	Irene Latham is the author of more than a dozen current and forthcoming books, including two novels for children: Leaving Gee's Bend and Don't Feed the Boy . Winner of the 2016 ILA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award, her poetry books for children include Dear Wandering Wildebeest , When the Sun Shines on Antarctica , Fresh Delicious and Can I Touch Your Hair? (co-written with Charles Waters). Irene lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her family where she does her best to "live her poem" every single day by laughing, playing the cello, and walking in the woods. A renowned fine artist, John Holyfield lives in Fairfax Station, Virgina.