Rootabaga Stories
★4.3/5
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About This Book
Sandburg reads "Fog"; "Cool Tombs"; "The Windy City"; "The People, Yes"; and other selections. Unabridged.
Chapters (25)
- How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country
- How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away
- How the Five Rusty Rats Helped Find a New Village
- The Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion
- How the Potato Face Blind Man Enjoyed Himself on a Fine Spring Morning
- Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger
- The Toboggan-to-the-Moon Dream of the Potato Face Blind Man
- How Gimme the Ax Found Out About the Zigzag Railroad and Who Made It Zigzag
- The Story of Blixie Bimber and the Power of the Gold Buckskin Whincher
- The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes
- The Story of Rags Habakuk, the Two Blue Rats, and the Circus Man Who Came with Spot Cash Money
- The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It
- How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo
- Three Boys With Jugs of Molasses and Secret Ambitions
- How Bimbo the Snip’s Thumb Stuck to His Nose When the Wind Changed
- The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child
- The Dollar Watch and the Five Jack Rabbits
- The Wooden Indian and the Shaghorn Buffalo
- The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy
- What Six Girls with Balloons Told the Gray Man on Horseback
- How Henry Hagglyhoagly Played the Guitar with His Mittens On
- Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon
- Sand Flat Shadows
- How to Tell Corn Fairies If You See ’Em
- How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling From Philadelphia to Medicine Hat
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