Rootabaga Stories

Cover of the first edition (1922) of what is sometimes called Book One; illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham

Rootabaga Stories (1922) is a children's book of interrelated short stories by Carl Sandburg. The whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories, which often use nonsense language,[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ "Carl Sandburg Stops Making Sense". Poetry Foundation. 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  2. ^ Harry Golden (1961). Carl Sandburg. World pub. Co. p. 90.