More rootabagas / stories by Carl Sandburg ; pictures by Paul Zelinsky ; collected and with a foreword by George Hendrick.
By: Sandburg, Carl.
Contributor(s): Zelinsky, Paul O [ill.] | Hendrick, George.
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Knopf, c1993Description: 94 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 0679800700 :; 0679900705 (lib. bdg.).Other title: More rutabagas.Subject(s): Children's stories, American | Short stories | Fantasy | Short stories | Fantasy fictionDDC classification: [Fic]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 Country and came back with five sky blue whispering cats -- How the caterpillar told secrets 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.
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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.
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