page_title: Rootabaga Stories
section_title: Sequels
hierarchical_section_title: Rootabaga Stories / Sequels
caption_attribution_description: English: Frontispiece of the 1922 edition of Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg, published by Harcourt, Brace, and Company, New York. . Illustration by Maud and Miska Petersham. Cleaned up and adjusted to match colours in original, as best as possible.
context_page_description: 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 own daughters. Sandburg had three daughters, Margaret, Janet and Helga, whom he nicknamed "Spink", "Skabootch" and "Swipes", and those nicknames occur in some of his Rootabaga stories.
context_section_description: Rootabaga Stories was followed by a sequel, Rootabaga Pigeons, published in 1923. A little known volume of Rootabaga stories called Potato Face was published in 1930 by Harcourt, Brace and Company. It was not illustrated. A collection of previously unpublished stories was published as More Rootabagas in 1993 with illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky.
caption: Frontispiece of the 1922 first edition of Rootabaga Stories. Illustration by Maud and Miska Petersham.
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