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Rootabaga stories / Carl Sandburg ; illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham.

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 (Author). Petersham, Maud, 1890-1971 (illustrator.). Petersham, Miska, 1888-1960 (illustrator.).

Summary:

A selection of tales from Rootabaga Country peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others.

Record details

  • ISBN: 015204714X
  • ISBN: 9780152047146
  • ISBN: 0152047093
  • ISBN: 9780152047092
  • Physical Description: xi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: Orlando, Fla. : An Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic, 2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Odyssey classic."
Originally published: San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1922.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Three Stories About the Finding of the Zigzag Railroad, the Pigs with Bibs on, the Circus Clown Ovens, the Village of Liver-and-Onions, the Village of Cream Puffs 1 -- How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country -- How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away -- How the Five Rusty Rats Helped Find a New Village -- 2. Five Stories About the Potato Face Blind Man 29 -- Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion -- How the Potato Face Blind Man Enjoyed Himself on a Fine Spring Morning -- Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger -- Toboggan-to-the-Moon Dream of the Potato Face Blind Man -- How Gimme the Ax Found Out About the Zigzag Railroad and Who Made It Zigzag -- 3. Three Stories About the Gold Buckskin Whincher 53 -- Story of Blixie Bimber and the Power of the Gold Buckskin Whincher -- Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes -- Story of Rags Habakuk, the Two Blue Rats, and the Circus Man Who Came with Spot Cash Money -- 4. Four Stories about the Deep Doom of Dark Doorways 73 -- Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It -- How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo -- Three Boys with Jugs of Molasses and Secret Ambitions -- How Bimbo the Snip's Thumb Stuck to His Nose When the Wind Changed -- 5. Three Stories about Three Ways the Wind Went Winding 99 -- Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child -- Dollar Watch and the Five Jack-Rabbits -- Wooden Indian and the Shaghorn Buffalo -- 6. Four Stories about Dear, Dear Eyes 119 -- White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy -- What Six Girls with Balloons Told the Gray Man on Horseback -- How Henry Hagglyhoagly Played the Guitar with His Mittens On -- Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon -- 7. One Story--"Only the Fire-Born Understand Blue" 143 -- Sand Flat Shadows -- 8. Two Stories about Corn Fairies, Blue Foxes, Flongboos and Happenings That Happened in the United States and Canada 155 -- How to Tell Corn Fairies If You See 'Em -- How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat.
Target Audience Note:
1130L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.5 4 68143.

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Fairy tales > United States.
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Fiction.

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