Journey cake / by Isabel McLennan McMeekin ; illustrated by Nicholas Panesis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMeekin, Isabel McLennan, 1895-1973, author, autographer.

Contributor:

Panesis, Nicholas, illustrator.

Julian Messner (Firm), publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Juvenile fiction.

African American women.

Frontier and pioneer life--Juvenile fiction.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Yadkin River Valley (N.C.)--Juvenile fiction.

Yadkin River Valley (N.C.).

Wilderness Road--Juvenile fiction.

Wilderness Road.

Genre:

Action and adventure fiction.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

McMeekin, Isabel McLennan, 1895-1973 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 7-231, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Special limited Kentucky edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Julian Messner, Inc., [1942]

Summary:

A free African American woman takes six motherless White children on a journey from North Carolina to Kentucky to join their father..

Notes:

"This special limited Kentucky edition of Journey cake by Isabel McLennan McMeekin the 1942 award book of the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation for Children's Literature is autographed by the author [signature] copy no. [blank]"--Limitation page.

Includes bibliographical references (page 227).

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy is number 235 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition autographed by the author. See limitation page.

OCLC:

1479557720