Rootabaga Stories Contributor(s): Sandburg, Carl (Author), Johnson, Zura (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1799939073 ISBN-13: 9781799939078 Publisher: Silverton Agency OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Classics - Juvenile Fiction | Short Stories - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 6.7" (0.15 lbs) |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In the village of Liver-and-Onions, there was a Potato Face Blind Man who used to play an accordion on the corner near the post office. The sometime narrator of these tales, he transports readers and listeners to Rootabaga Country, where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, the pigs wear bibs, and the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind, looking like a little hat that you could wear on the end of your thumb. Carl Sandburg, the beloved folk chronicler and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, invented these stories for his own daughters. Populated by corn fairies, circus performers, and such memorable characters as Poker Face the Baboon, Hot Dog the Tiger, and Gimme the Ax, Rootabaga Country is built with the homespun poetry of the American frontier. The stories' inspired nonsense--loaded with rhythm, humor, and tongue-twisting names--fires the imagination and pulls at the heartstrings. |