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Title: Rootabaga Stories
ISBN: 015204714X
Author:
Carl Sandburg
Publicate Date: 2003-04-01
Publish: 2003-04-01
List Price: $6.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Interesting, but very strange
My wife and I love and highly recommend Carl Sandburg's other book "The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle". This is a picture book that is very funny, and was one of her favorite books growing up as a kid.
Rootabaga stories doesn't have any pictures, and is a bit strange. Don't get me wrong, the author is brilliant and the writing is interesting, but it wasn't a fun kid's book like we were expecting.
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2: Great stories for children
A Sandburg classic - for children. Best read out loud. A collection of very short stories. A quick read. Fun. Non-sensical fantasy. Though a bit dated, it is amazing how relevant most of these stories still feel.
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3: The Best American Bedtime Stories!
If you have kids, if you are one yourself or if you have ever been one, you want this book. This is Sandburg at his wacky-best. It will have you all laughing.
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4: Soothing, not boring
As a child, I found Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories quite odd and rather difficult to read to myself beyond the first few stories. Yet as an adult, I think they are the best read-aloud bedtime stories around. The characters and plots are off-kilter enough to be engaging, yet the pace of the stories is calm and gently repetitive.
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5: For A Childhood of Broad Shoulders
Carl Sandburg's *Rootabaga Stories* (once collected in a rather hefty volume, now available serially as they were originally released) are well-enough known that many may find it puzzling that these stories -- which seemed so wonderful to them as children -- are not more widely read and spoken of. I certainly do: but I wonder if the salient quality of the *Rootabagas*, the "vividness" emphasized by Maud and Miska Petersham's clean-line expressionist illustrations, make them something of the juvenile counterpart to Sandburg's multi-volume biography of Lincoln (a memento of an American past not fondly remembered by many). In other words, we might perhaps conjecture (quietly if necessary) that these stories were intended to 'equilibrate' children in an industrialized present, something like Walter Benjamin's cinema, and that the flavor of the monumental (which intimated to the post-war reader that they were in the presence of greatness) may not be to the taste of those not prepared to shoulder the burden of social control. But for those of us with sympathy for Robert Capa and suchlike, it is pleasing that we have a new "friend" in Libros Viajeros, who are making this book available as the imposing lump it ought to be; and perhaps it is still the case, even in this era of shorter school hours and an unfriendlier public sphere, that every child ought to have a hardback book. If so, this would not be the worst one.
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