King Penguin : a legend of the South sea isles

Date:

1928, ©1925.

Author:

Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH H815 K5 1928 LOCAL

Publisher:

Macmillan Co.

Abstract:

When Percy Johnstone falls off his ship close to the South Orkney Islands, the Penguin King does his best to make Percy comfortable, but when another ship rescues Percy, he tricks the Penguin King into a cage, and must then face his own conscience.

Physical Description:

xvi, 95 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 17 cm.

Series:

The little library

Notes:

Col. illustrations on end papers. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1928 Macmillan imprint, c 1925, 3d printing, with dust jacket; Macmillan's Little Library edition of text 1st published in Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress in 1848 (editor's note); spine titles and front cover titles and vignette (sailor) stamped in black on orange cloth

Subjects:

Penguins Juvenile fiction, Survival Juvenile fiction, Penguins, and Survival

Genres/Forms:

Fiction and Juvenile works