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Author: Carl Sandburg Publisher: Applewood Books ISBN: 155709490X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 245
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A selection of tales from Rootabaga Country peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others.
Author: Carl Sandburg Publisher: Applewood Books ISBN: 155709490X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 245
Book Description
A selection of tales from Rootabaga Country peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others.
Author: Carl Sandburg Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 122
Book Description
Rootabaga Stories is a children's book of interrelated short stories by Carl Sandburg. The whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories, which often use nonsense language, were originally created for his own daughters. Sandburg had three daughters, Margaret, Janet and Helga, whom he nicknamed "Spink", "Skabootch" and "Swipes", and those nicknames occur in some of his Rootabaga stories. The "Rootabaga" stories were born of Sandburg's desire for "American fairy tales" to match American childhood. A large number of the stories are told by the Potato Face Blind Man, an old minstrel of the Village of Liver-and-Onions who hangs out in front of the local post office. His impossibly acquired first-hand knowledge of the stories adds to the book's narrative feel and fantastical nature. Excerpt: "Gimme the Ax lived in a house where everything is the same as it always was. 'The chimney sits on top of the house and lets the smoke out, said Gimme the Ax. The doorknobs open the doors. The windows are always either open or shut. We are always either upstairs or downstairs in this house. Everything is the same as it always was..."
Author: Carl Sandburg Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 104
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A selection of Sandburg's fanciful, humorous short stories peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, Susan Slackentwist, and Dippy the Wisp.
Author: Carl Sandburg Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers ISBN: 9780152047139 Category : Children's stories, American Languages : en Pages : 0
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A selection of tales from Rootabaga Country peopled with such characters as the Huckabuck Family, Big Buff Banty Hen, Dippy the Wisp, and many others.
Author: Steven Megson Publisher: ISBN: 9781778012402 Category : Languages : en Pages : 30
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Meet Rooty the rutabaga! "A roota-what?" Don't worry, the other vegetables in the garden had never heard of one either. This first book in the series, Rooty the Rutabaga is a fun tale of a lonely root vegetable who lives in the dark part of the garden away from the "popular" vegetables. With the help of a couple friendly peppers, Rooty learns lessons about, inclusion, trying new things, and about how making new friends and kindness can open your eyes to seeing the sunny side of life. In this book packed with cute and colourful illustrations, children will also find an activity section with fun facts about some of the vegetables in the book, an engaging spot the difference game, and a vegetable themed quiz. Perfect for ages 3-8, children will love Rooty the Rutabaga, as it helps to teach positive life lessons while being fun and entertaining. It's great for a bedtime story, group reading, or a one-on-one reading with a loved one. Looking for cute books for kids? ✓ Kids books about vegetables? ✓ And positive messages? ✓ Come meet Rooty the rutabaga!
Author: Penelope Niven Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780152046866 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 40
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Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for History.
Author: Kathy-jo Wargin Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press ISBN: 1627535950 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 52
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The young maiden Leelinau is forbidden from going into the Spirit Wood. But Leelinau so enjoys her time spent there with the Pukwudjinees (the tiny fairies of the forest) that she risks playing with them time and time again. The legend explores the resistance many of us harbor of entering adulthood. This is the fifth title written by Kathy-jo Wargin and illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen in our Legend series which currently has 400,000 copies in print. The Legend of the Sleeping Bear, the title that began the series, is the official State of Michigan childrens's book. "Leelinau was so happy to be in the Spirit Wood once again that she began to dance all around. Then she sat down amidst a mess of large tree roots that fit like a chair made just for her. But this time, as she sat there to rest, she heard strange whispers. At first, Leelinau thought it sounded like baby robins trying to catch their first breaths, or ferns being tossed back and forth in the wind. But Leelinau wasn't quite sure, so she listened more carefully. She heard more whispers, and then voices. Leelinau became frightened. Her heart pounded like a large drum in her chest, and her throat felt tight and narrow."
Author: Carl Sandburg Publisher: ISBN: Category : Presidents Languages : en Pages : 242
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Adapted from the author's Abraham Lincoln: the prairie years, this narrative covers Lincoln's early life, up until he left home at age nineteen.
Author: Carl Sandburg Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252060182 Category : Languages : en Pages : 140
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) is best known for his poetry (Chicago Poems, Smoke and Steel, and Good Morning, America), his books for children, including Rootabaga Country and Potato Face, and his six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Illinois author devoted his life to writing, lecturing, reading from his own works, and collecting and singing folk songs. Sandburg often incorporated proverbs, riddles, aphorisms, and vernacular wisdom in lectures, poetry, children's stories, and in his novel Remembrance Rock. Believing that silliness and fun helped preserve sanity and balance, he put together a collection of fanciful anecdotes - alive with alliteration - for his own amusement. Now, more than twenty years after his death, the publication of Fables, Foibles, and Foobles truly reveals, for perhaps the first time, the playful spirit of this great American poet. George Hendrick has compiled the best of these never-before-published nonsensical pieces, which include Flies, Fleas, Flinyons, Flicks, Flooches, Flacks, Flatches, and assorted F-friends deep in dialogue about books and reading; the fascinating worlds of the curious hoomadooms, hongdorshes, and onkadonks; fables to rival Thurber; jokes about every conceivable type of nut; and cameo appearances by Hank the Honk and Flitty the Wid, among others. Robert Harvey's whimsical drawings, scattered throughout the book, illuminate this charming cast of characters.
Author: Carl Sandburg
Author: Carl Sandburg
Author: Carl Sandburg
Author: Carl Sandburg
Author: Carl Sandburg
Author: Steven Megson
Author: Carl Sandburg
Author: Penelope Niven
Author: Kathy-jo Wargin
Author: Carl Sandburg
Author: Carl Sandburg