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Rootabaga Stories
Carl Sandburg and Maud Petersham
Five rusty rats helped find a new village: that is the sober historical record of Rootabaga Country. Carl Sandburg's original stories introduce the Potato Face Blind Man, his gold accordion, the lost diamond rabbit, and Poker Face the Baboon. The great poet inventing an American fairyland from scratch. Buy a ticket where the railroad tracks go zigzag. Please note: this is the text of the story only. It has no pictures, so it is meant for a grown-up to read aloud rather than for a child to read alone. The illustrated experience of this story is the audiobook edition on Littletone.
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25 chapters
- 1How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country
- 2How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away
- 3How the Five Rusty Rats Helped Find a New Village
- 4The Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion
- 5How the Potato Face Blind Man Enjoyed Himself on a Fine Spring Morning
- 6Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger
- 7The Toboggan-to-the-Moon Dream of the Potato Face Blind Man
- 8How Gimme the Ax Found Out About the Zigzag Railroad and Who Made It Zigzag
- 9The Story of Blixie Bimber and the Power of the Gold Buckskin Whincher
- 10The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes
- 11The Story of Rags Habakuk, the Two Blue Rats, and the Circus Man Who Came with Spot Cash Money
- 12The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It
- 13How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo
- 14Three Boys With Jugs of Molasses and Secret Ambitions
- 15How Bimbo the Snip’s Thumb Stuck to His Nose When the Wind Changed
- 16The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child
- 17The Dollar Watch and the Five Jack Rabbits
- 18The Wooden Indian and the Shaghorn Buffalo
+ 7 more. The full contents open with the book.
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