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Rootabaga Stories

Carl Sandburg

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Rootabaga Stories

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Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons, a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created for his own daughters. The Rootabaga Stories were born of Sandburg’s desire for “American fairy tales” to match American childhood. He felt that the European stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, and so populated his stories with animals, skyscrapers, trains, corn fairies, and other colorful characters.
Gimme the Ax lived in a house where everything is the same as it always was. “The chimney sits on top of the house and lets the smoke out,” said Gimme the Ax. “The doorknobs open the doors. The windows are always either open or shut. We are always either upstairs or downstairs in this house. Everything is the same as it always was.” So he decided to let his children name themselves. 4 “The first words they speak as soon as they learn to make words shall be their names,” he said. “They shall name themselves.” When the first boy came to the house of Gimme the Ax, he was named Please Gimme. When the first girl came she was named Ax Me No Questions.
ALLEN 09/14/2018
Isn't it delightful to find an established poet or author who also wrote delightful kids' stories? T.S. Eliot was one, of course (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats), and had I not moved to the Midwest as a young adult, I'm not sure I'd ever have learned of these wonderful Rootabaga Stories by big-
Gale 05/26/2013
AMERICAN FAIRY TALES

Carl Sandburg, winner of Pulitzer Prizes both for his biography of Abraham Lincoln and for his COMPLETE POEMS, explores another genre in ROOTABAGA STORIES, fairy tales that he wrote for his daughters. When asked how he wrote the stories, Sandburg replied, "The children asked que
Chab 04/24/2008
Carl Sandburg's ROOTABAGA STORIES remain unique in American Literature. I regard the best ones as prose poetry and as among my own favorite Sandburg poems.

My own personal favorites:

The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child
This is the most beautiful and touching of all the Rootabaga Stories. I

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