Schroeder, Alan.

Ragtime Tumpie / written by Alan Schroeder ; paintings by Bernie Fuchs. - 1st ed. - Joy Street Books, c1989. - 32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Tumpie, a young black girl who will later become famous as the dancer Josephine Baker, longs to find the opportunity to dance amid the poverty and vivacious street life of St. Louis in the early 1900s.

ISBN: 0316774979 (lib. bdg.) 0316775045 (pbk.)

LCCN: 87037221 /AC

Subjects--Personal Names:
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Blacks--Fiction.
Dancing--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Saint Louis (Mo.)--Fiction.