Books with author carl sandburg

THE FAMOUS COLLECTION OF STORIES WITH ILLUSTRATION -a children's book of interrelated short stories by Carl Sandburg. The whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories, which often use nonsense language,[1] 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 whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories, which often use nonsense language, were originally created for his own daughters. Gimme the Ax decided to let his children name themselves. "The first words they speak as soon as they learn to make words shall be their names," he said. "They shall name themselves." When the first boy came to the house of Gimme the Ax, he was named Please Gimme. When the first girl came she was named Ax Me No Questions. And both of the children had the shadows of valleys by night in their eyes and the lights of early morning, when the sun is coming up, on their foreheads. And the hair on top of their heads was a dark wild grass. And they loved to turn the doorknobs, open the doors, and run out to have the wind comb their hair and touch their eyes and put its six soft fingers on their foreheads.

A hardcover edition of Carl Sandburg's address given before the Joint Session of Congress in Feburary 1959 on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's 150th birthday. The Lincoln biographer spoke of the nation's 16th president as a man "who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of a terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect."This short work is part of Applewood's American Roots, series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America's most famous writers and thinkers.

Carl Sandburg - Abraham Lincoln. SEE OUR PHOTOS! This 2-Volume set of Sandburg's "The Prairie Years" was published in 1926 by Harcourt Brace and Company. These volumes appear unread and in new condition in every way, except for minimal shelf wear and a previous owner's name on inside covers. Otherwise, internal pages appear spotless. The hardcovers are like new, with sharp edges and corners, and bright gold lettering on the spines. Overall, a very impressive set of volumes. This current offer is for a set almost identical to our 4 photos shown.

"The surrealistic illustrations, which appear to be rendered in pastels, are appealing; the soft edges and warm tones work well with Sandburg's imaginery."--SLJ. "The full-color illustrations are nothing short of breathtaking."--Parents. "...displays the range of everyday topics in which Sandburg found beauty, humor, or pathos....Unfamiliar words are helpfully defined in footnotes...and an introductory biographical essay establishes a context for the poems. Arcella makes a grand debut; his intensely colored sculptural forms, carved from dramatic shadows, have a distinctly '30s look to them...."--Kirkus Reviews. 48 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.

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"Chicago Poems" is an early collection of poems by American poet Carl Sandburg. This little volume includes the following poems: Chicago, Sketch, Masses, Lost, The Harbor, They Will Say, Mill-Doors, Halsted Street Car, Clark Street Bridge, Passers-by, The Walking Man of Rodin, Subway, The Shovel Man, A Teamster's Farewell, Fish Crier, Picnic Boat, Happiness, Muckers, Blacklisted, Graceland, Child of the Romans, The Right to Grief, Mag, Onion Days, Population Drifts, Cripple, A Fence, Anna Imroth, Working Girls, Mamie, Personality, Cumulatives, To Certain Journeymen, Chamfort, Limited., The Has-Been, In a Back Alley, A Coin, Dynamiter, Ice Handler, Jack, Fellow Citizens, Nigger, Two Neighbors, Style, To Beachey-1912, Under a Hat Rim, In a Breath, Bath, Bronzes, Dunes, On the Way, Ready to Kill, To a Contemporary Bunkshooter, Skyscraper, Fog, Pool, Jan Kubelik, Choose, Crimson, Whitelight, Flux, Kin, White Shoulders, Losses, Troths, Killers, Among the Red Guns, Iron, Murmurings in a Field Hospital, Statistics, Fight, Buttons, And They Obey, Jaws, Salvage, Wars, The Road and the End, Choices, Graves, Aztec Mask, Momus, The Answer, To a Dead Man, Under, A Sphinx, Who Am I?, Our Prayer of Thanks, At a Window, Under the Harvest Moon, The Great Hunt, Monotone, Joy, Shirt, Aztec, Two, Back Yard, On the Breakwater, Mask, Pearl Fog, I Sang, Follies, June, Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard, Hydrangeas, Theme in Yellow, Between Two Hills, Last Answers, Window, Young Sea, Bones, Pals, Child, Poppies, Child Moon, Margaret, Poems Done on a Late Night Car, It Is Much, Trafficker, Harrison Street Court, Soiled Dove, Jungheimer's, Gone, Dreams in the Dusk, Docks, All Day Long, Waiting, From the Shore, Uplands in May, A Dream Girl, The Plowboy, Broadway, Old Woman, The Noon Hour, 'Boes, Under a Telephone Pole, I Am the People, the Mob, Government, Languages, Letters to Dead Imagists, Sheep, The Red Son, The Mist, The Junk Man, Silver Nails, and Gypsy.

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 and More Rootabaga Stories will stand alone on children's bookshelves--when they aren't in children's hands.