Light chipping to jacket, light foxing band on endpaper, star symbol on rear endpaper. Rootabaga stories unabridged rootabaga stories unabridged audiobook, by carl sandburg. Feeling that european stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, he set his stories in a fictionalized american midwest called rootabaga country. See all books authored by carl sandburg, including abraham lincoln.
The whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories, which often use nonsense, isbn 9781627937542. In 1979, carl sandburg village was converted to condominium ownership. Collection of nonsense tales for young children, includes both rootabaga stories and rootabaga pigeons. Welcome to rootabaga countrywhere the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, where the pigs wear bibs, and where the village of cream puffs floats in the wind. A newlyillustrated edition of sandburgs fanciful, humorous tales peopled with such characters as the potato face blind man, the blue wind boy, and many others. Carl sandburg wrote these stories for his daughters spink, skabootch and swipes. Carl sandburg 18781967 was twice awarded the pulitzer prize, first in 1940 for his biography of abraham lincoln and again in 1951 for complete poems. Rootabaga stories by carl sandburg, signed abebooks. Free audio book that you can download in mp3, ipod and itunes format for your portable audio player.
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