Rowena Teena Tot and the Blackberries
- Cloth
- Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., Junior Press Books, 1945
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., Junior Press Books, 1945. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Mary GROSJEAN. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE]. Mary GROSJEAN, illustrator.
First edition, sixth printing, copyright 1934. Small 4to; 32pp; green cloth over board, color pictorial only to front board showing three young Black girls with pails of blackberries; color pictorial patterned eps; color pictorial half-title, title page and copyright page; color illustrations every page; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, fine in fine dj. The story of three Black children in the South and their grandmother.
The author, Fannie Burgheim Blumberg (1894-1964) and the illustrator, Mary Grosjean, were white women writing a story about three Black children and their grandparents. While the story is entertaining and interesting, both the illustrations and character dialect are stigmatizing in perpetuating negative stereotypes.
First edition, sixth printing, copyright 1934. Small 4to; 32pp; green cloth over board, color pictorial only to front board showing three young Black girls with pails of blackberries; color pictorial patterned eps; color pictorial half-title, title page and copyright page; color illustrations every page; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, fine in fine dj. The story of three Black children in the South and their grandmother.
The author, Fannie Burgheim Blumberg (1894-1964) and the illustrator, Mary Grosjean, were white women writing a story about three Black children and their grandparents. While the story is entertaining and interesting, both the illustrations and character dialect are stigmatizing in perpetuating negative stereotypes.
Details
Title
Rowena Teena Tot and the Blackberries
Author
BLUMBERG, Fannie Burgheim
Binding
Cloth
Condition
Near Fine
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co., Junior Press Books: Chicago
Date
1945