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Rootabaga Stories
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| Author(s): | Carl Sandburg |
| Illustrator(s): | Maud Petersham Miska Petersham |
| Publisher(s): | Harcourt, Brace and Company |
| Year Published: | 1922 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | American Fairy Tales - Modern Fantasy – American Humorous Nonsense |
| Age Range: | Ages 5-7: Early Reader Books |
| Pages: | 230 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| ISBN-10: | 0486815609 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780486815602 |
| OCLC: | 917046036 |
Description
The first collection of American fairy tales from the poet of the prairies. This is the first edition containing eight chapters. Later editions with this title also include the stories from Rootabaga Pigeons. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at archive.org.
Other Editions
How the Five Rusty Rats Helped to Find a New Village (1922)
This is the first periodical publication of part three of chapter 1 of Rootabaga Stories. The image above is online at freelibrary.
How to Break Away and Go to the Rootabaga Country (1922)
This was the headline illustration for the first periodical publication of the first of the three stories in Chapter 1 of Part One of Rootabaga Stories. It appeared in volume 56, Issue 4 (September 1922) of The Designer and the Woman's Magazine, on pages 10 and 11.
Read our scans of page 10 and page 11. Those links will download in a new tab.
The image above is available online at freelibrary.
More Stories About the Potato Face Blind Man (1922)
This is the first periodical publication of a story about the Potato Face Blind Man from Rootabaga Stories printed in The Designer and The Woman's Magazine, probably in January 1923.
The image above is available online at freelibrary.
The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes (1922)
This is the first periodical publication of this story from Rootabaga Stories. The image is available online at freelibrary.
Rootabaga Country: Selections from Rootabaga Stories & Rootabaga Pigeons (1929)
A selection of stories from the first two volumes of Rootabaga Stories.
Rootabaga Stories (1951)
Omnilbus collection of American fairy tales from the poet of the prairies including Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons.
Rootabaga Stories - Part One (1988)
Fairy tales as American as the Iowa cornfields.
Read online at archive.org.
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