The Caldecott Medal–winning collection of classic American rhymes, songs, and jingles. Beautifully rendered illustrations accompany well-known nursery rhymes, counting-out games, skipping-rope songs, finger games, and other schoolyard classics beloved by generations of American children. Collected from across America, The Rooster Crows features rhymes both old and new, and will be a perfect addition to any child’s collection.

The Rooster Crows : A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles

Children's Books

Petersham, Miska

Petersham, Maud

Literature & Fiction

Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers

A two-volume collection of fanciful, humorous tales introducing such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, Henry Hagglyhoagly, the Blue Wind Boy, Googler and Gaggler, and others.

Rootabaga Stories (A Voyager Book, Avb 85, Avb 90)

SANDBURG, Carl

Petersham, Maud Fuller

Harcourt Childrens Books

The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles

Aladdin

Rootabaga Stories 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. The "Rootabaga" stories were born of Sandburg's desire for "American fairy tales" to match American childhood. A large number of the stories are told by the Potato Face Blind Man, an old minstrel of the Village of Liver-and-Onions who hangs out in front of the local post office. His impossibly acquired first-hand knowledge of the stories adds to the book's narrative feel and fantastical nature. Excerpt: "Gimme the Ax lived in a house where everything is the same as it always was. 'The chimney sits on top of the house and lets the smoke out, said Gimme the Ax. The doorknobs open the doors. The windows are always either open or shut. We are always either upstairs or downstairs in this house. Everything is the same as it always was..."

Rootabaga Stories (Vintage Children's Books Series): Crazy Funny Tales for Little Children

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Musaicum Books

Tales Told in Holland (Illustrated)

Beaupre Miller, Olive

History

Independently published

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