Books with title Rootabaga stories 1922

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.

A magical gift with ……There is in (his humor) the appeal of sound as well as of action. It is a humor so distinctive, so individual, that only a great poet could have made it universal…..All of Sandburg’s words are significant. His words have not only meaning, they have a definite relation to one another. They dance a measure in THE WEDDING PROCESSION OF THE RAG DOLL AND THE BROOM HANDLE. They sing a melody in that story of his that belongs with pure poetry rather than with humor – THE WHITE HORSE GIRL AND THE BLUE WIND BOY. His stories are joyous rather than humorous. Indeed, they are both joyous and humorous. They have the natural tempo’ of childhood. This is an omnibus volume including all the stories in ROOTABAGA STORIES and ROOTABAGA PIGEONS. The original illustrations by the Petershams are also included.

Rootabaga Stories (1922) 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" -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. He felt that the European stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, and so set his stories in a fictionalized American Midwest called "the Rootabaga country" filled with farms, trains, and corn fairies. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootabaga_Stories Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book.