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More rootabagas
- Title
- More rootabagas / stories by Carl Sandburg ; pictures by Paul O. Zelinsky ; collected and with a foreword by George Hendrick.
- Author
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
- Publication
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1993.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | --- | Text | Use in library | JFF 94-1714 --- | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Zelinsky, Paul O.
- Description
- 94 p. : col. ill.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- A selection of Sandburg's fanciful, humorous short stories peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, Susan Slackentwist, and Dippy the Wisp.
- Alternative Title
- More rutabagas.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fantasy fiction.
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi Book"--verso t. p.
- Contents
- A girl named Silver Pitchers tells a story about Egypt, Jesse James and Spanish onions -- The story of Peter Potato Blossom Wishes and how she went down into Rootabaga County and came back with five sky blue whispering cats -- How the caterpillar told stories to a spink bug and a huck -- How Susan Slackentwist sang a song to a cornfield scarecrow -- The story of how dippy the wisp and ax me no questions learned about the village of pick ups -- The story of burnt chestnuts, fish stars with fire tails and two prairie girls, the beans are burning and sweeter than the bees humming -- How they are good to the green hat-eating horses -- The hat dancers who came the year summer never came -- The palace of pickles and the mud slingers with buckets of mud -- How the fairies went away...and who took their places.
- Call Number
- JFF 94-1714
- ISBN
- 0679800700 (trade)
- 0679900705 (GLB)
- LCCN
- 92014930 /AC
- OCLC
- 25963908
- NYPGR25963908-B
- Author
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
- Title
- More rootabagas / stories by Carl Sandburg ; pictures by Paul O. Zelinsky ; collected and with a foreword by George Hendrick.
- Imprint
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1993.
- Added Author
- Zelinsky, Paul O. Illustrator
- Added Title
- More rutabagas.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 94-1714