- Folklore, Juvenile literature, collectionID:caldecotthonor50, Children's fiction
Right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot. He was halfway down and more when the straps on his sacking bag broke loose. Out bounced the journey cake. It bumped and it bumped; it rolled over and over. Down the road it went, and how it hollered! "Journey cake, ho! Journey cake, hi! Catch me and eat me as I roll by!" Away and away rolled the journey cake. Away and away ran Johnny.
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- Author
- Ruth Sawyer, Robert McCloskey
- First published
- June 1967
- Pages
- 45
- Publisher
- Weston Woods, Dutton Juvenile, Viking Press
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670409433
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Ruth Sawyer was an American storyteller and a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. She may be best known as the author of Roller Skates, which won the 1937 Newbery Medal. She received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1965 for her lifetime achievement in children's literature. Source: wikipedia
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