Rootabaga Stories
- ISBN-10
- 1975773233
- ISBN-13
- 9781975773236
- Series
- Rootabaga Stories
- Pages
- 202
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-08-27
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Carl Sandburg
Description
Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created for his own daughters. 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 populated his stories with animals, skyscrapers, trains, corn fairies, and other colorful characters. First Page: [Illustration: The balloons floated and filled the sky] ROOTABAGA STORIES BY CARL SANDBURG Author of "Slabs of the Sunburnt West," "Smoke and Steel," "Chicago Poems," "Cornhuskers" ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS BY MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM [Illustration] NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY, N J TO SPINK AND SKABOOTCH CONTENTS
