Tye May and the magic brush /

Tye May and the magic brush /

In a dream a poor orphan is given a brush that brings to life everything she paints.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bang, Molly.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Greenwillow Books, [1981]
Series:	Greenwillow read-alone books.
Subjects:	Fiction.
Retention:	Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials

Description
Summary:	In a dream a poor orphan is given a brush that brings to life everything she paints. In a dream a poor orphan is given a brush that brings to life everything she paints.
Physical Description:	55 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	0688802907 : 0688842909
Author Notes:	Molly Bang was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1943. After college, Bang taught English in Japan. She returned to the U.S and earned her graduate degree in East Asian Languages and Literatures, then worked in India, Bangladesh, and West Africa for Johns Hopkins, Unicef and Harvard. Her first books were translations of folktales, which she also illustrated. Bang has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious Caldecott Honor Book Award three times, for The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, Ten, Nine, Eight and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry. She won the Giverny Award for Best Science Picture Book for Common Ground in 1998. Ten, Nine, Eight also won the ALA Notable Children's Book and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry, won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. It was also an ALA Notable Book and a Jane Addams Children's Honor Book Her titles include Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays, Tiger's Fall, Little Rat Sets Sail, My Light, and Picture This: Perception and Composition. (Bowker Author Biography)