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Rootabaga Stories, Part Two (Odyssey Classic)
Rootabaga Stories Part Two - Odyssey Classic Author:Carl Sandburg, Maud Petersham (Illustrator), Miska Petersham (Illustrator) This second volume of unique fairy tales includes stories originally published in 1923. Each reflects the warmth of a midwestern childhood, a zest for life, and a love of the American language that has never been equaled. — The skyscraper to the moon and how the green rat with the rheumatism ran a thousand miles twice -- — Slipfoot and how he near... more »ly always never gets what he goes after --
Many, many weddings in one corner house --
Shush shush, the big buff banty hen who laid an egg in the postmaster's hat --
How Rag Bag Mammy Kept her secret while the wind blew away the village of hat pins --
How six piegons came back to Hatrack the Horse after many accidents and six telegrams --
How the three wild Babylonian baboons went away in the rain eating bread and butter --
How six umbrellas took off their straw hats to show respect to the one big umbrella --
How Bozo the Button Buster busted all his buttons when a mouse came --
How Googler and Gaggler, the two Christmas babies, came home with monkey wrenches --
How Johnny the Wham sleeps in money all the time and Joe the Wimp shines and sees things --
How Deep Red Roses goes back and forth between the clock and the looking glass --
How Pink Peony sent Spuds, the ballplayer, up to pick four moons --
How Dippy the Wisp and Slip Me iz came in the moonshine where the Potato Face Blind Man sat with his accordion --
How Hot Balloons and his pigeon daughters crossed over into the Rootabaga country --
How two sweetheart dippies sat in the moonlight on a lumberyard fence and heard about the Sooner and the Boomers --
The haystack cricket and how things are differennt up in the Moon towns --
Why the big ball game between Hot Grounders and the Grand Standers was a hot game --
The Huckabuck family and how they raised popcorn in Nebraska and quit and came back --
Yang Yang and Hoo Hoo, or the song of the left foot of the shadow of the goose in Oklahoma --
How a skyscraper and a railroad train got picked up and carried away from Pig's Eye Valley far in the Pickax Mountains --