Rootabaga Stories
by Carl Sandburg
Buy on AmazonRootabaga Stories (1922) is a children's book of interrelated short stories by Carl Sandburg. The whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories, which often use nonsense language, were originally created for his own daughters. Sandburg had three daughters, Margaret, Janet and Helga, whom he nicknamed "Spink", "Skabootch" and "Swipes", and those nicknames occur in some of his Rootabaga stories.
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"And then there are Carl Sandburg’s “Rootabaga Stories,” by which I remain as wholly captivated in adulthood as I was in childhood."
By the Book: Andrew Solomon · nytimes.com