ACROSS The COTTON PATCH.
New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1935. 1st edition (Baumgarten 2004, p. 52). Not found in the Blockson Catalogue. Unpaginated, though 62 pp. Black & white drawings by the author. Landscape format: 9" x 11". Green cloth binding with red stamped lettering. Yellow, black & orange pictorial dust jacket, which is now protected by a clear mylar wrapper. Average wear to binding, age-toning & signs of being read, Very Good. General wear to the jacket, primarily to extremities, Abt VG - Very Good. Item #52229
Credle "was an American writer. She wrote a number of books for children and young adults, some of which she also illustrated, as here. Credle is best known as the creator of the acclaimed children's book Down Down the Mountain (1934) and other stories set in the South. While the most successful of her work has been called inspirational, some other stories were controversial for her depiction of African Americans", again, as here.
Regarding Across the Cotton Patch — a story that concerns two white and two black siblings getting into mischief together — Barbara Bader [respected literary critic & one-time juvenile editor at Kirkus Reviews] allows that the dialect ascribed to the black children is embarrassing four decades after. She counters, however, that the white children speak a 'variant of standard English' as well, and the book nonetheless 'comes alive as a picture of American children'". [Wiki].
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