Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg
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"Rootabaga Stories" by Carl Sandburg is a children's book published in 1922. Originally created for Sandburg's own daughters, these whimsical and sometimes melancholy tales reimagine fairy tales for American childhood. Set in the fictionalized "Rootabaga country" of the Midwest, the stories blend fantastical elements like corn fairies with everyday features of American life—farms, trains, sidewalks, and skyscrapers. Many tales are narrated by the Potato Face Blind Man, a mysterious storyteller whose impossible
firsthand knowledge adds to the book's enchanting, dreamlike quality. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Petersham, Maud, 1890-1971 |
| Illustrator | Petersham, Miska, 1888-1960 |
| LoC No. | 22020317 |
| Title | Rootabaga Stories |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootabaga_Stories |
| Credits |
Produced by Betsie Bush, ronnie sahlberg and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain material from the Children's Books Online - Rosetta Project) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 85.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Fantasy literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Children's stories, American |
| Subject | Fairy tales -- United States |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 27085 |
| Release Date | Oct 29, 2008 |
| Last Update | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 5539 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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