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Jan 29, 2021

'How Henry Hagglyhoagly Played the Guitar with His Mittens On' is a love story in Carl Sandburg's "Rootabaga Stories".

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Jan 27, 2021

Carl Sandburg's 'What Six Girls with Balloons Told the Gray Man on Horseback' is one of those stories that shows us just how well Sandburg captured a child's imagination in his tales.

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Jan 25, 2021

In Carl Sandburg's 'The White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy' we find ourselves back in Rootabaga Country with a young man and woman with a sense of adventure.

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Jan 22, 2021

Our final Hans Christian Andersen tale for the week is all about love and the very naughty boy who brings it to us, Cupid.

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Jan 20, 2021

I've told a version of Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Leap Frog' before ('The Leaping Match') but I really prefer this translation and I hope you do as well.

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