Rowena Teena Tot and the Blackberries
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., Junior Press Books, 1945. Mary GROSJEAN. Cloth. [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. Fine / near fine. Item #1913
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.
Price: $175.00