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Populated by corn fairies, circus performers, and such memorable characters as poker face the baboon, hot dog the tiger, and gimme the ax, rootabaga country is built with the homespun poetry of the american frontier. Rootabaga stories carl sandburg audiobook and ebook. Feeling that european stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, he set his stories in a fictionalized american midwest called rootabaga country and fill the land with farms, trains, and corn fairies. Before achieving literary fame, sandburg s occupations included milkman, ice harvester, dishwasher, salesman, and fireman. Youll meet new characters and journey farther into the village of liver and onions and sandburg s imagination than ever before. Carl sandburg 18781967 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. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Rootabaga stories kindle edition by sandburg, carl. Three stories about the finding of the zigzag railroad, the pigs with bibs on, the circus clown ovens, the village of li.
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. Carl sandburg 18781967 received three pulitzer prizes, two for his poetry and one for his 1940 biography of abraham lincoln. About the author b carl sandburg b 1878 1967 was twice awarded a pulitzer prize first in 1940 for his four volume abraham lincoln the war years and again in 1951 for complete poems. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Get a personalized roundup of vices best stories in your inbox. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading rootabaga stories.
Rootabaga stories, volume 7 carl sandburg full view 1923. Sandburg created the rootabaga country and peopled it with some amazing characters. This reproduction of the first edition includes the illustrations of maud and miska petersham. Pdf formatted for computer use epub apple, kobo mobi kindle. Within this text are zany and sometimes silly, however they are wonderful short stories. Carl sandburg, the beloved folk chronicler and threetime pulitzer prize winner, invented these stories for his own daughters. Project gutenberg offers 61,108 free ebooks to download. Rootabaga stories by carl sandburg author miska petersham illustrator. This book is available for free download in a number of formats including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more.
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