Carl Sandburg, Author, Linda Zuckerman, Editor, Wendell Minor, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $18 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-200082-0
Dedicated ""to all who remember their grassroots,"" Minor's full-page golden paintings of wind-blown wheat, holstein cows, winter shadows and summer grass take their inspiration from Sandburg's poetry in this handsome volume. Nostalgic images of the
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Carl Sandburg, Author, Anita Lobel, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $13 (24p) ISBN 978-0-679-88170-4
Lobel's (Princess Furball) joyous, shimmering paintings pay homage to Sandburg's never-before-published poem of love and celebration with generous doses of warmth and whimsy. The poem describes a young man's efforts to capture an elusive aurora...
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Carl Sandburg, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-203865-6
Sandburg's classic poem has timeless appeal for all those, young and old, who have ever struggled with the seeming intractibility of math (``Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head'') or fretted over convoluted word...
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Carl Sandburg, Author, David Small, Illustrator , illus. by David Small. FSG/Sunburst $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-43449-6
According to PW
, "The homespun, old-fashioned charm of Small's busy pictures makes the most of this winning narrative, first published in 1923 as one of Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories
." Ages 5-up. (Sept.)
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Carl Sandburg, Author, David Small, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-33511-3
The homespun, old-fashioned charm of Small's (The Gardener) busy pictures makes the most of this winning narrative, first published in 1923 as one of Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories. The comedy begins on a Nebraska corn farm owned by the Huckabucks:...
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Carl Sandburg, Author, Paul Zelinsky, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $18 (94p) ISBN 978-0-679-80070-5
In his foreword, George Hendrick explains that Sandburg, searching for bedtime stories for his three daughters, lamented the lack of fairy tales native to this country. So the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln wrote three
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Carl Sandburg, Author, Astvan Banyai, Author, Carl Sandburg Family Trust, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (48p) ISBN 978-0-679-88990-8
Wrested from obscurity in the archives of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library, this bizarre collection of Sandburg's previously unpublished children's verse is not without its droll charms. The poems themselves are uneven, as...
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Carl Sandburg, Author, Lynn Smith-Ary, Illustrator Annick Press $7.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-55037-680-7
Conceived as a kind of literary field trip to Carl Sandburg's North Carolina farm, From Daybreak to Good Night: Poems for Children, edited by Lynn Smith-Ary, places 11 of the poet's works in a pastoral setting. Smith-Ary's artwork portrays the ...
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Carl Sandburg, Author, Maud Fuller Petersham, Illustrator, Miska Petersham, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $6.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-15-204714-6
The Classics CornerCarl Sandburg's 1920 Rootabaga Stories and 1923 More Rootabaga Stories are back, in all their goofy read-aloud glory, in handsome cloth and paper reissues with interior illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham. As the tales...
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Carl Sandburg, Author, Maud Fuller Petersham, Illustrator, Miska Petersham, Illustrator Harcourt Young Classics $17 (192p) ISBN 978-0-15-204709-2
The Classics CornerCarl Sandburg's 1920 Rootabaga Stories and 1923 More Rootabaga Stories are back, in all their goofy read-aloud glory, in handsome cloth and paper reissues with interior illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham. As the tales...
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Carl Sandburg, Author, Maud Fuller Petersham, Illustrator, Miska Petersham, Illustrator Harcourt Young Classics $17 (176p) ISBN 978-0-15-204713-9
The Classics CornerCarl Sandburg's 1920 Rootabaga Stories and 1923 More Rootabaga Stories are back, in all their goofy read-aloud glory, in handsome cloth and paper reissues with interior illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham. As the tales...
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Carl Sandburg, Author, Miska Petersham, Illustrator, Maud Fuller Petersham, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $5.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-15-204706-1
The Classics CornerCarl Sandburg's 1920 Rootabaga Stories and 1923 More Rootabaga Stories are back, in all their goofy read-aloud glory, in handsome cloth and paper reissues with interior illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham. As the tales...
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Carl Sandburg, Author, Edward C. Goodman, Editor, Alan Axelrod, Introduction by Sterling $29.95 (463p) ISBN 978-1-4027-4288-0
An illustrated edition of Sandburg's definitive Lincoln biography, this volume makes a handsome gift for a Lincoln buff. Sandburg's original work covered six volumes and won a Pulitzer Prize, and was widely hailed as the most noteworthy historical...
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Frances S. Bolin, Editor, Steven Arcella, Illustrator, Carl Sandburg, Author Sterling $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8069-0818-2
Following its treatment of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, Sterling adds two more titles on American masters to the Poetry for Young People series: Carl Sandburg, edited by Frances Schoonmaker Bolin, illustrated by Steven Arcella, and Edgar Allan...
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