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Rootabaga Stories 1-Simul ed. Edition
Author(s): Carl Sandburg (Author), Maud and Miska Petersham (Illustrator)
- Publisher: Clarion Books
- Publication Date: April 1, 2003
- Edition: 1-Simul ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 015204714X
- ISBN-13: 9780152047146
Book Description
Welcome to Rootabaga Country--where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, where the pigs wear bibs, and where the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind. You'll meet baby balloon pickers, flummywisters, corn fairies, and blue foxes--and if you're not careful, you may never find your way back home!
These beautiful new editions retain the original illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham, and feature gorgeous new jackets by acclaimed illustrator Kurt Cyrus. Carl Sandburg's irrepressible, zany, and completely original Rootabaga Stories 1-Simul ed. Edition and More Rootabaga Stories will stand alone on children's bookshelves--when they aren't in children's hands.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Takes the home-bred American fantasy of The Wizard of Oz even further."--School Library Journal
"Glorious for reading aloud."--The New York Times Book Review
About the Author
CARL SANDBURG (1878–1967) was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, first in 1940 for his biography of Abraham Lincoln and again in 1951 for Complete Poems. Before becoming known as a poet, he worked as a milkman, an ice harvester, a dishwasher, a salesman, a fireman, and a journalist. Among his classics are the Rootabaga Stories, which he wrote for his young daughters at the beginning of his long and distinguished literary career.
