Rootabaga Stories
10 best books like Rootabaga Stories (Carl Sandburg): Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands: Hawaii in the 1860s, The Story of a Bad Boy, A Hole is to Dig, The Animal Family, Wheedle on the Needle, The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World, Wolf Story, The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme, The Dragons of the Cuyahoga, Beautiful Yetta: The Yiddish Chicken
Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands: Hawaii in the 1860s
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0935180931 |
At 31 years old and in the employ if the Sacramento Union, Mark Twain took his first trip away from the North American continent onboard the steamer Ajax bound for a four month tour of the Sandwich Islands, On Sunday, March 18, 1866, he arrived in Honolulu and fell in love with the islands that were to...
| Author | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| ISBN | 1406806641 |
A Hole is to Dig
| Author | Ruth Krauss |
| Author | Randall Jarrell |
| ISBN | 0062059041 |
Wheedle on the Needle
| Author | Stephen Cosgrove |
| ISBN | 0843148721 |
The people whistle while they work, making it impossible for the Wheedle to get proper rest,...
| Author | Ethel Johnston Phelps |
| ISBN | 0805006796 |
| Author | William McCleery |
| ISBN | 0208021914 |
| Author | Marge Piercy |
| ISBN | 0375704310 |
About Marge Piercy's collection of her old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "The Art of Blessing the Day is an exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and...
| Author | S. Andrew Swann |
| ISBN | 0756400090 |
It all started about a decade ago, when the Portal suddenly opened up over the stadium right in the middle of a game. Cleveland just hadn't been the same since, what with electronic devices pretty much useless--unless you were willing to spend a fortune in digital protection...
| Author | Daniel Pinkwater |
| ISBN | 0312558244 |
| Author | Joan Walsh Anglund |
| ISBN | 0152296786 |
| Author | Mervyn Peake |
| ISBN | 0763616257 |
A delightful children's book, handwritten and illustrated by Mervyn Peake, though like all really good children's books, it can also be enjoyed by adults.
This book reflects Peake's lifelong love of pirates and islands, though it's really a simple story of friendship, fun and adventure....
| Author | Jake Halpern |
| ISBN | 0618446621 |
| Author | Shyam Selvadurai |
| ISBN | 0618576800 |
The Hills Beyond
| Author | Thomas Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0807125679 |
| Author | Jane Roberts |
| ISBN | 1878424289 |
| Author | Richard Chase |
| ISBN | 0618346929 |
As kids, most Americans are exposed, at one time or another, to a retelling of the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Some Americans are vaguely aware that this is a very old story, going back several centuries at least. But...
| Author | Robert Inman |
| ISBN | 0316418374 |
A couple of hundred pages later, and my original opinion has not changed a bit.
It might just be me. I mean, it's Southern lit, and I'm not a Southern lit fan. The dust jacket says "Brimming with the mystery, sadness, an exquisite beauty...
Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
| Author | Sydney Eddison |
| ISBN | 1604692669 |
Although the garden may beckon as strongly as ever, the tasks involved—pulling weeds, pushing wheelbarrows, digging holes, moving heavy pots—become increasingly difficult, or even impossible, with advancing age....
| Author | Marilyn Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0874774586 |
The Crows of Pearblossom
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0891901671 |
The World is Round
| Author | Gertrude Stein |
| ISBN | 1569579059 |
My Prairie Cookbook: Memories and Frontier Food from My Little House to Yours
| Author | Melissa Gilbert |
| ISBN | 1419707787 |
Snake Attack! (LEGO Ninjago Chapter Book #5)
| Author | Tracey West |
| ISBN | 0545465184 |
There's a new hero in town -- a mysterious masked Samurai who is stealing the ninja's spotlight! They complain of a competing hero, but Sensei Wu thinks competition will be good for them. Meanwhile, the ninja go on a snake mission which leads them...