• Publication: Rootabaga PigeonsPublication Record # 567200
• Author: Carl Sandburg
• Date: 1923-09-00
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Company
• Price:
  $2.00^?$: US dollar
• Pages: ix+218
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: Rootabaga Pigeons by Maud Petersham and Miska Petersham
• Notes: 1st edition OCLC/WorldCat contains a list of Contents Blue cloth, yellow decoration and lettering; color dustjacket evidently by the Petershams --descriptions and images at ABEbooks Price per advert by the publisher NYTimes 1923-09-30 Reviewed Chi Tribune Sat 1923-11-17 p11 (last day of Children's Book Week)
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 23-12908
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1703910
  • Open Library: OL6656736M

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Rootabaga Pigeons • interior artwork by Maud Petersham and Miska Petersham
• The Skyscraper to the Moon and How the Green Rat with the Rheumatism Ran a Thousand Miles Twice • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• Slipfoot and How He Nearly Always Never Gets What He Goes After • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• Many, Many Weddings in One Corner House • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• Shush, Shush, the Big Buff Banty Hen Who Laid an Egg in the Postmaster's Hat • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How Ragbag Mammy Kept Her Secret While the Wind Blew Away the Village of Hat Pins • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How Six Pigeons Came Back to Hatrack the Horse After Many Accidents and Six Telegrams • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How the Three Wild Babylonian Baboons Went Away in the Rain Eating Bread and Butter • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How Six Umbrellas Took Off Their Straw Hats to Show Respect for the One Big Umbrella • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How Bozo the Button Buster Busted All His Buttons When a Mouse Came • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How Googler and Gaggler, the Two Christmas Babies, Came Home with Monkey Wrenches • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How Johnny the Wham Sleeps in Money All the Time and Joe the Wimp Shines and Sees Things • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How Deep Red Roses Goes Back and Forth Between the Clock and the Looking Glass • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How Pinky Peony Sent Spuds, the Ballplayer, Up to Pick Four Moons • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How Dippy the Wisp and Slip Me Liz Came in the Moonshine Where Potato Face Blind Man Sat with His Accordion • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How Hot Balloons and His Pigeon Daughters Crossed Over Into the Rootabaga Country • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How Two Sweetheart Dippies Sat in the Moonlight on a Lumber Yard Fence and Heard About the Sooners and the Boomers • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• The Haystack Cricket and How Things Are Different Up in the Moon Towns • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• Why the Big Ball Game Between Hot Grounders and the Grandstanders Was a Hot Game • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Pop Corn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• Yang Yang and Hoo Hoo, or, The Song of the Left Foot of the Shadow of the Goose • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• How a Skyscraper and a Railroad Train Got Picked Up and Carried Away from Pig's Eye Valley Far in the Pickax Mountains • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• Pig Wisps • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• Kiss Me • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg
• Blue Silver • (1923) • short story by Carl Sandburg