Rootabaga Stories (1922) - Softcover

Sandburg, Carl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498192491 ISBN 13: 9781498192491

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014

Synopsis

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

About this title

About the Author:

Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967) was an American poet, writer and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature," especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918) and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life" and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America." --Wikipedia

From the Back Cover:

Joyous, humorous, poetic, and always uniquely American, Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories are an important part of our children's literary legacy. In inimitable prose, Sandburg created Rootabaga Country-where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, where the pigs have bibs on, and where the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind-and populated it with baby balloon pickers, flummywisters, Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger, the White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy, corn fairies, blue foxes, and many more fanciful characters. Rootabaga Stories, Part One is irrepressible, zany Americana-an anthology to delight admirers of Sandburg's genius.

About this edition

• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1498192491
• ISBN 13: 9781498192491
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244
• Illustrator: Petersham Miska, Petersham Maud Fuller