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Rootabaga stories
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Rootabaga stories: Three stories about the finding of the zigzag railroad, the pigs with bibs on, the circus clown ovens, the village of liver-and-onions, the village of cream puffs: How they broke away to go to the rootabaga country ; How they bring back the village of cream puffs when the wind blows it away ; How the five rusty rats helped find a new village
Five stories about the potato face blind man: Potato face blind man who lost the diamond rabbit on his gold accordion ; How the potato face blind man enjoyed himself on a fine spring morning ; Poker Face the baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger ; Toboggan-to-the-moon dream of the potato face blind man ; How gimme the ax found out about the zigzag railroad and who made it zigzag
Three stories about the gold buckskin whincher: Story of Blixie Bimber and power of the gold buckskin whincher ; Story of Jason Squiff and why he had a popcorn hat, popcorn mittens and popcorn shoes ; Story of Rags Habakuk, the two blue rats, and the circus man who came with spot cash money
Four stories about the deep doom of dark doorways: Wedding procession of the rag doll and broom handle and who was in it ; How the hat ashes shovel helped Snoo Foo ; Three boys with jugs of molasses and secret ambitions ; How Bimbo the Snip's thumb stuck to his nose when the wind changed
Three stories about three ways the wind went winding: Two skyscrapers who decided to have a child ; Dollar watch and the five jack rabbits ; Wooden indian and the shaghorn buffalo
Four stories about dear, dear eyes: White horse girl and the blue wind boy ; What six girls with balloons told the gray man on horseback ; How Henry Hagglyhoagly played the guitar with his mittens on ; Never kick a slipper at the moon
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"Only the fire-born understand blue": Sand flat shadows
Two stories about corn fairies, blue foxes, flongboos and happenings that happened in the United States and Canada: How to tell corn fairies when you see 'em ; How the animals lost their tails and got them back traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat
Rootabaga pigeons: Two stories told by the potato face blind man: Skyscraper to the moon and how the green rat with the rheumatism ran a thousand miles twice ; Slipfoot and how he nearly always never gets what he goes after
Two stories about bugs and eggs: Many, many weddings in one corner house ; Shush shush, the bib buff banty hen who laid an egg in the postmaster's hat
Five stories about hatrack the horse, six pigeons, three wild babylonian baboons, six umbrellas, bozo the button buster: How ragbag manmmy kept her secret while the wind blew away the village of hat pins ; How six pigeons came back to hatrack the horse after many accidents and six telegrams ; How the three wild babylonian baboons went away in the rain eating bread and butter ; How six umbrellas took off their strawhats to show respect to the one big umbrella ; How bozo the button buster busted all his buttons when a mouse came
Two stories about four boys who had different dreams: How googler and gaggler, the two christmas babies, came home with monkey wrenches ; How Johnny the wham sleeps in money all the time and Joe the wimp shines and seees things
Two stories told by the potato face blind man about two girls with red hearts: How deep red roses goes back and forth between the clock and the looking glass ; How pink peony sent spuds, the ballplayer, up to pick four moons
Three stories about moonlight, pigeons, bees, Egypt, Jesse James, spanish onions, the queen of the cracked heads, the kig of the paper sacks: How dippy the wisp and slip me liz came in the moonshine where the potato face blind man sat with his accordion ; How hot balloons and his pigeon daughters crossed over into the rootabaga country ; How two sweetheart dippies sat in the moonlight on a lumber yard fence and heard about the sooners and the boomers
Two stories out of the tall grass: Haystack cricket and how things are different up in the moon towns ; Why the big ball game between hot grounders and the grand standers was a hot game ; Two stories out of Oklahoma and Nebraska: Huckabuck family and how they raised pop corn in Nebraska and quit and came back ; Yang Yang and Hoo Hoo, or the song of the left foot of the shadow of the goose
One story about big people now and little people long ago: How a skyscraper and a railroad train got picked up and carried away from pig's eye valley far in the pickax mountains
Three stories about the letter X and how it got into the alphabet: Pig wisps ; Kiss me ; Blue silver.
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9781982406295
9783968659954
9781420974201
9781799939122
9781420940046
9780486821443
9783968659954
9781420974201
9781799939122
9781420940046
9780486821443
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