Rootabaga Stories
Title | Rootabaga Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Sandburg |
Publisher | Applewood Books |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 155709490X |
A selection of tales from Rootabaga Country peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others.
More Rootabaga Stories
Title | More Rootabaga Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Sandburg |
Publisher | HMH Books For Young Readers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Children's stories, American |
ISBN | 9780152047139 |
A selection of tales from Rootabaga Country peopled with such characters as the Huckabuck Family, Big Buff Banty Hen, Dippy the Wisp, and many others.
More Rootabagas
Title | More Rootabagas PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Sandburg |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN |
A selection of Sandburg's fanciful, humorous short stories peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, Susan Slackentwist, and Dippy the Wisp.
The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It
Title | The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Sandburg |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2017-07-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0486815854 |
Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1922.
American Fairy Tales
Title | American Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Michael McCurdy |
Publisher | Hyperion Books for Children |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780786821716 |
A collection of tales that embody the American spirit in contrast to European-based fairy tales, with brief discussions about each author.
Always the Young Strangers
Title | Always the Young Strangers PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Sandburg |
Publisher | HMH |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2015-10-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0544784014 |
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir. Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature. In Always the Young Strangers, Sandburg delivers a nostalgic view of small-town life around the turn of the twentieth century and an invaluable perspective on American history.
Fables, Foibles, and Foobles
Title | Fables, Foibles, and Foobles PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Sandburg |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780252060182 |
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) is best known for his poetry (Chicago Poems, Smoke and Steel, and Good Morning, America), his books for children, including Rootabaga Country and Potato Face, and his six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Illinois author devoted his life to writing, lecturing, reading from his own works, and collecting and singing folk songs. Sandburg often incorporated proverbs, riddles, aphorisms, and vernacular wisdom in lectures, poetry, children's stories, and in his novel Remembrance Rock. Believing that silliness and fun helped preserve sanity and balance, he put together a collection of fanciful anecdotes - alive with alliteration - for his own amusement. Now, more than twenty years after his death, the publication of Fables, Foibles, and Foobles truly reveals, for perhaps the first time, the playful spirit of this great American poet. George Hendrick has compiled the best of these never-before-published nonsensical pieces, which include Flies, Fleas, Flinyons, Flicks, Flooches, Flacks, Flatches, and assorted F-friends deep in dialogue about books and reading; the fascinating worlds of the curious hoomadooms, hongdorshes, and onkadonks; fables to rival Thurber; jokes about every conceivable type of nut; and cameo appearances by Hank the Honk and Flitty the Wid, among others. Robert Harvey's whimsical drawings, scattered throughout the book, illuminate this charming cast of characters.