Rootabaga stories / Carl Sandburg ; illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham.
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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- Subject:
- Fairy tales > United States.
Children's stories, American.
Short stories > Juvenile fiction. - Genre:
- Fairy tales.
Fiction.
Available copies
- 11 of 12 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Old Fort Branch Library | JUV SAN (Text) | 37810435387005 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | JFIC SAN (Text) | 31111003026794 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Black Mountain Library | J/PBK (Text) | 0020513373165 | Juvenile Fiction Paperback | Available | - |
| Edneyville Branch | SAN (Text) | 33258004879339 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Enka-Candler Library | J/PBK (Text) | 0020512081603 | Juvenile Fiction Paperback | Available | - |
| Fairview Library | J SAN (Text) | 0020507408720 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Fairview Library | J/PBK (Text) | 0020513765915 | Juvenile Fiction Paperback | Available | - |
| Harold D. Cooley Library | JF San (Text) | 20100000010325 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | SAN (Text) | 33258004511890 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | SAN (Text) | 33258004879370 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
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