Carl Sandburg 2 hr read

In the Rootabaga Country, reached by a zigzag railroad, live the Cream Puffs, the pigs with bibs on, and the circus clown ovens, nonsense tales spun by a great American poet for his own daughters.

Carl Sandburg's 1922 collection is a landmark of homegrown American fantasy for children, whimsical and musical. Playful, inventive, uniquely American. Read it for Sandburg's tender, tall-tale nonsense, a Midwestern answer to Alice, brimming with warmth and wild imagination.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

2 hr read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Maud Petersham