Dec 17, 2009

The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales | Sandburg, Carl

Sandburg, Carl (1878–1967),
American poet, biographer, and folklorist. His humorous tales for children, Rootabaga Stories (1922) and Rootabaga Pigeons (1923), were originally told to his two young daughters. Sandburg's best stories are as full of poetic invention and comic nonsense as Edward Lear, but they take place in an American Midwest where trains, skyscrapers, and a farm buried in popcorn mix with classic fairy‐tale motifs and magic objects like the Gold Buckskin Whincher, which causes Blixie Bimber to fall in love with the first man she meets with an x in his name.

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Lynn, Joanne L., ‘Hyacinths and Biscuits in the Village of Liver and Onions: Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories’, Children's Literature, 8 (1979).

Niven, Penelope, Carl Sandburg: A Biography (1991).

Thistle, Mary S., ‘Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories: American Fairy...

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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales | Sandburg, Carl

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