Irene and the Big, Fine Nickel - Couverture rigide

Irene Smalls grew up in Harlem in the 1950s and graduated from Cornell University. She also has an M.B.A. from New York University and held jobs as a model, an actress, a radio reporter, and a small business owner and is the author of many picture books.

Tyrone Geter received a masters of fine art from Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio with a major in painting. He now teaches painting and drawing in the Department of Art at Benedict College, and is also the director of the Henry Ponder Fine Arts Gallery, Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina.

This new edition with revised, shorter text relates the adventures of a young girl, living in Harlem in the 1950s, on the morning that she finds a nickel in the street. Full color.