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Tales from Rootabaga Country


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In this episode we’re celebrating the pure, nonsensical joy of Carl Sanburg’s Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons.  Know for his monumental 6 volume biography of Abraham Lincoln, Sandburg also wrote poetry and children's fairy tales.  These stories are set in a world where the railroad tracks run off into the sky and the Village of Cream Puffs floats away in the wind! Join me to step into this whimsical past together letting our imaginations soar with the echoes of these delightful tales!

  • How Gimme the Ax Found Out About the Zigzag Railroad and Who Made It Zigzag
  • How to Tell Corn Fairies If You See ’Em
  • Many, Many Weddings in One Corner House”
  • How Six Pigeons Came Back to Hatrack the Horse After Many Accidents and Six Telegrams
  • Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon

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