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'''''[[Rootabaga Stories]]''''' is a children's book of interrelated short stories by [[Carl Sandburg]], written in 1922. The stories are whimsical and sometimes melancholy, making use of nonsense language. ''Rootabaga Stories'' was originally created for Sandburg's own daughters, Margaret, Janet and Helga—whom he nicknamed "Spink", "Skabootch", and "Swipes"—and those nicknames occur in some of the Rootabaga stories. The book was born of Sandburg's desire for fairy tales to which American children could relate, rather than the traditional European stories involving royalty and knights. He therefore set the book in a fictionalized [[Midwestern United States|American Midwest]] called |
'''''[[Rootabaga Stories]]''''' is a children's book of interrelated short stories by [[Carl Sandburg]], written in 1922. The stories are whimsical and sometimes melancholy, making use of nonsense language. ''Rootabaga Stories'' was originally created for Sandburg's own daughters, Margaret, Janet and Helga—whom he nicknamed "Spink", "Skabootch", and "Swipes"—and those nicknames occur in some of the Rootabaga stories. The book was born of Sandburg's desire for fairy tales to which American children could relate, rather than the traditional European stories involving royalty and knights. He therefore set the book in a fictionalized [[Midwestern United States|American Midwest]] called the "Rootabaga country", in which fairy-tale concepts were mixed with trains, sidewalks, and skyscrapers. |
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This picture shows the frontispiece of the 1922 edition of the book. |
This picture shows the frontispiece of the 1922 edition of the book. |
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Rootabaga Stories is a children's book of interrelated short stories by Carl Sandburg, written in 1922. The stories are whimsical and sometimes melancholy, making use of nonsense language. Rootabaga Stories was originally created for Sandburg's own daughters, Margaret, Janet and Helga—whom he nicknamed "Spink", "Skabootch", and "Swipes"—and those nicknames occur in some of the Rootabaga stories. The book was born of Sandburg's desire for fairy tales to which American children could relate, rather than the traditional European stories involving royalty and knights. He therefore set the book in a fictionalized American Midwest called the "Rootabaga country", in which fairy-tale concepts were mixed with trains, sidewalks, and skyscrapers.
This picture shows the frontispiece of the 1922 edition of the book.Illustration: Maud and Miska Petersham; restoration: Adam Cuerden