Rootabaga stories / Carl Sandburg ; illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham.
| Author/creator | Sandburg, Carl |
| Other author | Petersham, Maud, 1890-1971 illustrator. |
| Other author | Petersham, Miska, 1888-1960 illustrator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Orlando, Fla. : An Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic, 2003. |
| Description | xi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Three Stories About the Finding of the Zigzag Railroad, the Pigs with Bibs on, the Circus Clown Ovens, the Village of Liver-and-Onions, the Village of Cream Puffs 1 -- 2. Five Stories About the Potato Face Blind Man 29 -- 3. Three Stories About the Gold Buckskin Whincher 53 -- 4. Four Stories about the Deep Doom of Dark Doorways 73 -- 5. Three Stories about Three Ways the Wind Went Winding 99 -- 6. Four Stories about Dear, Dear Eyes 119 -- 7. One Story--"Only the Fire-Born Understand Blue" 143 -- 8. Two Stories about Corn Fairies, Blue Foxes, Flongboos and Happenings That Happened in the United States and Canada 155. |
| Abstract | A selection of tales from Rootabaga Country peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others. |
| General note | Originally published: San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1922. |
| General note | "Odyssey classic." |
| LCCN | 2002191949 |
| ISBN | 0152047093 |
| ISBN | 9780152047092 |
| ISBN | 015204714X (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780152047146 (pbk.) |