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Rootabaga Stories Series

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A series of books including American fairy tales by Carl Sandburg, the poet of the prairies. The second collection, Rootabaga Pigeons was later titled More Rootabaga Stories or Rootabaga Stories Part Two.


Books in the Rootabaga Stories series:

Rootabaga Stories (1922)

The first collection of American fairy tales from the poet of the prairies. This is the first edition containing eight chapters. Later editions with this title also include the stories from Rootabaga Pigeons. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at archive.org.

Rootabaga Country: Selections from Rootabaga Stories & Rootabaga Pigeons (1929)

A selection of stories from the first two volumes of Rootabaga Stories.

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Peggy Bacon

Potato Face (1930)

A further collection of Rootabaga stories from the Potato Face Blind Man.

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): None

Rootabaga Stories (1951)

Omnilbus collection of American fairy tales from the poet of the prairies including Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons.

Stories from the Rootabaga Country (1958)

A collection of Rootabaga stories by the poet of the prairies.

Rootabaga Stories - Part One (1988)

Fairy tales as American as the Iowa cornfields.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

Rootabaga Stories - Part Two (1989)

American fairy tales including how the Huckabuck family raised popcorn in Nebraska.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

More Rootabagas (1993)

Ten more American fairy tales from the poet of the prairies.

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Paul O. Zelinsky