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..."
Rootabaga Stories (Vintage Children's Books Series)
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..."
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..."
Rootabaga Stories
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.
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.
The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486815854
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1922.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486815854
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1922.
Tales for Little Rebels
Author: Julia L. Mickenberg
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814757200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A rarely discussed aspect of children's literature--the politics behind a book's creation--has been thoroughly explored in this intelligent, enlightening, and fascinating account.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814757200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A rarely discussed aspect of children's literature--the politics behind a book's creation--has been thoroughly explored in this intelligent, enlightening, and fascinating account.
American Fairy Tales
Author: Neil Philip
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN: 9780786802074
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes works and discussion of Washington Irving, Horace E. Scudder, M.S.B., Frank Stockton, Howard Pyle, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Laura E. Richards, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Will Bradley, Carl Sandburg, and Neil Philip.
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN: 9780786802074
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes works and discussion of Washington Irving, Horace E. Scudder, M.S.B., Frank Stockton, Howard Pyle, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Laura E. Richards, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Will Bradley, Carl Sandburg, and Neil Philip.
If You Lived 100 Years Ago
Author: Ann McGovern
Publisher: If You.
ISBN: 9780590960014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Shows what it would have been like to live in New York City during the 1890's.
Publisher: If You.
ISBN: 9780590960014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Shows what it would have been like to live in New York City during the 1890's.
Rootabaga Pigeons
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A collection of fanciful, humorous short stories.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A collection of fanciful, humorous short stories.
Click, Clack, Moo
Author: Doreen Cronin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665921587
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665921587
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
More Rootabaga Stories
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780152047139
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780152047139
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Honey and Salt
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544416937
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
A collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet with “a sharp lively wit and a tender approach to the human condition” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Though he was also renowned as a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was first and foremost a poet—upon his death, President Lyndon B. Johnson said “Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.” In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as a poet for more than half a century of writing—life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, these intensely honest poems testify to human courage, frailty, and tenderness and to the enduring wonders of nature. “A poetic genius whose creative power has in no way lessened with the passing years.” —Chicago Tribune
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544416937
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
A collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet with “a sharp lively wit and a tender approach to the human condition” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Though he was also renowned as a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was first and foremost a poet—upon his death, President Lyndon B. Johnson said “Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.” In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as a poet for more than half a century of writing—life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, these intensely honest poems testify to human courage, frailty, and tenderness and to the enduring wonders of nature. “A poetic genius whose creative power has in no way lessened with the passing years.” —Chicago Tribune