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Fic San
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Publication
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1951), 218 pages.
Description
A selection of tales from Rootabaga Country peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others.
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Original publication date
1922
Physical description
218 p.; 7.7 inches
User reviews
LibraryThing member MrsLee
A collection of short stories from the imagination of Carl Sandburg, as told to his daughters. These are nonsense tales. You won't find any morals or lessons in them, although many are poignant and result in the hearer pondering life. They are best read aloud, slowly, turning the words over in your
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mouth before you speak them, for although they are prose, there is a rhythm and a cadence to the writing which delights the ear. The best example is of Sandburg himself reading them. There are a couple of recordings of that on YouTube, look it up and enjoy. Show Less
LibraryThing member leslie.98
Apparently Sandberg wrote these to be American fairy tales, feeling that traditional fairy tales from Europe had too many references to things we don't have here (such as royalty). In that aim, he only partially succeeded -- these are very nice childern's stories but overall they don't resonate. I
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think it is because they are mostly missing the conflict between good and evil that most traditional fairy tales have. Show Less
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Pages
218