Record Added: 5/15/2018 Series Rootabaga Stories Setting  United States Topic Collection of Stories Publisher Harcourt, Brace, and Comp ISBN 0152690611 Year 1988 Age 9-12 Pages 202 Description Printed dustjacket
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A newly-illustrated edition of Sandburg's fanciful, humorous tales, published in 1922, peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others. These fanciful tales reflect Sandburg's interest in folk ballads and nonsense verse. He modeled his expansive fictional land on the American Midwest.
The lighthearted stories, referred to as moral tales by Sandburg, feature such silly characters as Hot Dog the Tiger, Gimme the Ax, White Horse Girl, Blue Wind Boy, and Jason Squiff the Cistern Cleaner. Succeeding books in the same vein include Rootabaga Pigeons (1923), Rootabaga Country (1929), and Potato Face (1930). |
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