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    Rootabaga Stories
    Rootabaga Stories
    Rootabaga Stories
    Ebook166 pages1 hour

    Rootabaga Stories

    By Maud Fuller Petersham, Miska Petersham and Carl Sandburg

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1922
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      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 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.

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