Carl Sandburg

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1) Rootabaga stories

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American author and poet Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), best known for the poetry that attributed to two of his three Pulitzer Prizes, also wrote histories, biographies, novels, and children's stories. Born in Illinois, Sandburg spent most of his life in the Midwest before moving to North Carolina in 1945, where he lived till his death. In the early 1920s Sandburg began writing children's stories for his three daughters, beginning with his "Rootabaga...

2) Chicago Poems: Unabridged

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Sandburg, Carl

Series

Dover Thrift Editions

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eBook, Kindle

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Chicago Poems (1916) was Carl Sandburg's first-published book of verse. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a "poet of the people."
Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as "Chicago," "Fog," "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter," "Who Am I?" and "Under the Harvest Moon,"

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3) Abraham Lincoln: the war years

Author

Sandburg, Carl

4) Abraham Lincoln: the prairie years and the war years

Author

Sandburg, Carl

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Harvest book volume HB 297
Brilliance Audio on compact disc

5) The Huckabuck family and how they raised popcorn in Nebraska and quit and came back

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Sandburg, Carl

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After the popcorn the Huckabucks had raised explodes in a fire and Pony Pony Huckabuck finds a silver buckle inside a squash, the family decides it is time for a change.

6) More rootabagas

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Sandburg, Carl

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A selection of Sandburg's fanciful, humorous short stories peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, Susan Slackentwist, and Dippy the Wisp.