Carl Sandburg
Rootabaga Pigeons
Published by Good Press, 2020
EAN 4064066065751
Table of Contents
The Skyscraper to the Moon and How the Green Rat with the Rheumatism Ran a Thousand Miles Twice
Slipfoot and How He Nearly Always Never Gets What He Goes After
Many, Many Weddings in One Corner House
Shush Shush, the Big Buff Banty Hen Who Laid an Egg in the Postmaster's Hat
How Ragbag Mammy Kept Her Secret While the Wind Blew Away the Village of Hat Pins
How Six Pigeons Came Back to Hatrack the Horse After Many Accidents and Six Telegrams
How the Three Wild Babylonian Baboons Went Away in the Rain Eating Bread and Butter
How Six Umbrellas Took Off Their Straw Hats to Show Respect to the One Big Umbrella
How Bozo the Button Buster Busted All His Buttons When a Mouse Came
How Googler and Gaggler, the Two Christmas Babies, Came Home with Monkey Wrenches
How Johnny the Wham Sleeps in Money All the Time and Joe the Wimp Shines and Sees Things
How Deep Red Roses Goes Back and Forth Between the Clock and the Looking Glass
How Pink Peony Sent Spuds, the Ballplayer, Up to Pick Four Moons
How Hot Balloons and His Pigeon Daughters Crossed Over into the Rootabaga Country
The Haystack Cricket and How Things Are Different Up in the Moon Towns
Why the Big Ball Game Between Hot Grounders and the Grand Standers Was a Hot Game
The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Pop Corn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back
Yang Yang and Hoo Hoo, or the Song of the Left Foot of the Shadow of the Goose
Rootabaga Pigeons
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
| Rag Bag Mammy brings out candy with red and white stripes wrapped around it | ||
| Frontispiece (in color) | ||
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| On the last step of the stairway my foot slips… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .11 | ||
| The Hot Cookie Pan came with a pan of hot cookies and the Coal Bucket with coal… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .21 | ||
| The mouse bit the knot and cut it loose… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .67 | ||
| They went to sleep on top of the wagon… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .81 | ||
| She was sitting on a ladder feeding baby clocks to the baby alligators… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .119 | ||
| One of the pigeons rang the bell… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .129 | ||
| She carried the squash into the kitchen… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .171 | ||
| Out into the snowstorm Flax Eyes rode that day… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . … .209 | ||
1.Two Stories Told by the Potato
Face Blind Man
People:Blixie Bimber Blixie Bimber's Mother The Potato Face Blind Man A Green Rat with the Rheumatism Bricklayers Mortar Men Riveters A Skyscraper Slipfoot A Stairway to the Moon A Trapeze
The Skyscraper to the Moon and How the Green Rat with the Rheumatism Ran a Thousand Miles Twice
Blixie Bimber's mother was chopping hash. And the hatchet broke. So Blixie started downtown with fifteen cents to buy a new hash