Carl Sandburg
Rootabaga Stories
MP3 CD
(IDB Productions Aug. 16, 2019)
Rootabaga Stories
How They Broke Away to Go to the
Rootabaga Country
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."
So he 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.
How They Broke Away to Go to the
Rootabaga Country
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."
So he 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.
- ISBN
- 1776773357 / 9781776773350
- Weight
- 3.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 5.5 in.
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