Rootabaga Stories

Rootabaga Stories

By Carl Sandburg Illustrations by MAUD AND MISKA PETERSHAM
Michael Caine
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Length3h 3m

About this audiobook

Joyous, humorous, poetic, and always uniquely American, Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories are an important part of our children's literary legacy. In inimitable prose, Sandburg created Rootabaga Country-where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, where the pigs have bibs on, and where the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind-and populated it with baby balloon pickers, flummywisters, Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger, the White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy, corn fairies, blue foxes, and many more fanciful characters. Rootabaga Stories, Part One is irrepressible, zany Americana-an anthology to delight admirers of Sandburg's genius.|

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction, Young Adult
Length3 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 24, 2020
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
14How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo
2How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country
15Three Boys With Jugs of Molasses and Secret Ambitions
3How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away
16How Bimbo the Snip’s Thumb Stuck to His Nose When the Wind Changed
4How the Five Rusty Rats Helped Find a New Village
17The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child
5The Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion
18The Dollar Watch and the Five Jack Rabbits
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6How the Potato Face Blind Man Enjoyed Himself on a Fine Spring Morning
19The Wooden Indian and the Shaghorn Buffalo
7Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger
20The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy
8The Toboggan-to-the-Moon Dream of the Potato Face Blind Man
21What Six Girls with Balloons Told the Gray Man on Horseback
9How Gimme the Ax Found Out About the Zigzag Railroad and Who Made It Zigzag
22How Henry Hagglyhoagly Played the Guitar with His Mittens On
10The Story of Blixie Bimber and the Power of the Gold Buckskin Whincher
23Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon
11The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes
24Sand Flat Shadows
12The Story of Rags Habakuk, the Two Blue Rats, and the Circus Man Who Came with Spot Cash Money
25How to Tell Corn Fairies If You See ’Em
13The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It
26How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling From Philadelphia to Medicine Hat

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