Rootabaga Stories
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Rootabaga Stories is a children's book of interrelated short stories by Carl Sandburg. The whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories, which often use nonsense language, were originally created for his o
Cover of the first edition (1922) of what is sometimes called Book One; illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham
Frontispiece of the 1922 first edition of Rootabaga Stories. Illustration by Maud and Miska Petersham.
Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems, cover
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by the American author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas f
Rootabaga Stories
…Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon at Google Books, illustrated by Rosanne Litzinger, 2008. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and American Fairy Tales, two efforts by L. Frank Baum to devise American fairy tales. Rootabaga Stories [first printing, October 1922] e-text at Project…
The Wicked Witch melts. First edition illustration by W. W. Denslow.
The Winged Monkeys transport Dorothy.
L. Frank Baum circa 1911
Dorothy meeting the Cowardly Lion (Denslow, 1900)