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These enduring poems by American master poet Carl Sandburg are perfect for a young audience, and now they have been newly illustrated with bright, colorful double-page artwork. The poems and illustrations work together, following a group of children through a day of enjoying and participating in Sandburg's poetry, observing nature, solving riddles and playing. Young readers will respond to the pastoral themes.

Sandburg lived the last twenty-two years of his life on a farm called Connemara in North Carolina, with his three daughters, Margaret, Janet, and Helga, and his wife, Paula Steichen, who raised champion goats. Sandburg described Connemara as "240 acres and a million acres of sky" and would often take walks in the surrounding woods. The birds, animals, and natural world that surrounded him at the farm resonate throughout these poems.

A prior knowledge and love of poetry are not required to appreciate the wit and insight of Sandburg's work - though a love of poetry may well result!

Poems:

• Daybreak
• Fog
• Bluebird, What Do You Feed On?
• Milk-White Moon, Put the Cows to Sleep
• Spring
• Try Being a Goat
• White Wings
• Bug Spots
• Sleep Face
• Good Night
• Three Riddles:
  • If You Ask Your Mother
  • There Was a Zebra
  • There Are 10 Apples

We have also included two of Sandburg's favorite poems:

• Bee! I'm expecting you!
  by Emily Dickinson
• The Horse Named Bill,
  Lyrics by Red Lewis

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Always the Young Strangers, the authorÂ’s recollections of his childhood and youth in Galesburg, Illinois, is presented in a shortened version for younger readers. ... Read more

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Prairie
Here in his own words, a great American -- poet, newspaperman, historian, and singer of folk songs -- tells of his boyhood and youth in Galesburg, Illinois. ... Read more

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Helga Sandburg is the youngest daughter of Carl Sandburg and his remarkable wife, Lilian Steichen. Her uncle was the great photographer Edward Steichen. Like so many other Americans today, she sought the story of her origins and inheritance, of the grandparents who were immigrants from Sweden and Luxembourg. This is the story of a daughter's search into her past, a story of beginnings and ends, of doubts and joys. It is the account of a great and glorious romance that flowered over the years and survives in this book. ... Read more

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Welcome to Rootabaga Country--where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, where the pigs wear bibs, and where the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind. You'll meet baby balloon pickers, flummywisters, corn fairies, and blue foxes--and if you're not careful, you may never find your way back home!
These beautiful new editions retain the original illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham, and feature gorgeous new jackets by acclaimed illustrator Kurt Cyrus. Carl Sandburg's irrepressible, zany, and completely original Rootabaga Stories and More Rootabaga Stories will stand alone on children's bookshelves--when they aren't in children's hands.
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Tales from the heartland
I grew up in the Mid West, and have always loved the prairie.Sadly it is the most endangered habitat in the world, and well over 99% destroyed.Sandberg's stories of the Rutabaga country and the land of liver and onions really captures what the true feeling of this strange and lost world that was the prairie country.I long to be with Dippy the Wisp as she runs across the prairies and listens to stories told by Hatrack the Horse and the potato face blind man.I long to go to the train station so early in the morning and empty out my rag bag of all my spot cash money and buy a long slick yellow leather slab ticket with a blue spanch across it.I long to ride the train until the train runs out of tracks, and then forty ways further.

Read this book to your children.Look up Sandberg reading this on youtube, and try to mimic his accent.Read this book to your children and make it part of their heritage.Read this book to your children and years later they will thank you for it.They may suffer when they speak in class of "Wednesday evening between the twilight and the gloaming" and nobody realizes that they are talking about a pigeon, or when they comment to a friend that they will never "sit with the sitters or knit with the knitters".Read this book to your children.They will grow up to be better people because you did.

Great Stories
I read a story from this book or its sequel almost every night to my child.The original book was lost on a trip and this purchase replaced it.The stories are wonderful and well written. I like Carl Sandburg and I am used to the cadence of his writing; which may be a little challenging at first. (but worth the effort!) ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Carl Sandburg's first published book of verse dates back to 1916. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace and a love and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a "poet of the people." ... Read more

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Sandburg's many voices
Since each Sanburg poem in this cycle is read skillfully by a different actor, the listener gets a hightened impression of the poet's many voices.Sanburg's poetry is like 'The Spoon River Anthology', a motley crowd of speakers.I enjoyed listening to this production even more than the recordings by Sandburg himself. ... Read more

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Abraham Lincoln. By Carl Sandburg. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 1939. The Sangamon Edition. Six Volumes. Each 9.5" x 6.25", original red cloth with blind-stamped Lincoln profile on front covers, gilt and black ruled and lettered spines, illustrated with photographs, cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters. Original prospectus laid in.Volume I: The Prairie Years - 1, 1926, 480p., frontispiece plus 20 illustrations and 16p. of photographs.Volume II: The Prairie Years - 2, 1926, 482p., index, frontispiece plus 16 illustrations and 16p. of photographs.Volume III: The War Years - 1, 1939, 660p., 77 illustrations plus 15p. of photographs.Volume IV: The War Years - 2, 1939, 655p., 53 illustrations plus 31p. of photographs.Volume V: The War Years - 3, 1939, 673p., 59 illustrations plus 31p. of photographs.Volume VI: The War Years - 4, 1939, 515p., index, 46 illustrations plus 31p. of photographs.An exhaustive work on Abraham Lincoln, with hundreds of photographs, maps. letters and other illustrations. Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln was called "the greatest historical biography of our generation." ... Read more

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Excellent Buy for the Price
You can't beat the price anywhere. The books were in remarkable condition for their age (published in 1928). There is a slight separation in the spine of volume one, but all other volumes are in good to excellent condition.

THE Lincoln biography
The life of Lincoln, condensed to only 6 volumes, written in a style that only a master of English can use - you won't be able to put these books down.I've looked through the single volume version of this, and it lacks the depth and feelings that these volumes convey.This set is the established standard of Lincoln biographies. ... Read more

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Illustrations of anamorphic imagery, seen as distortions of optical images, enhance a version of one of Carl Sandburg's most beloved poems, complete with the poet's own fascinating method of calculation. ... Read more

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Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in January 1955. This book, the permanent embodiment of Edward Steichen's monumental exhibition, reproduces all of the 503 images that Steichen described as "a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world. Photographs made in all parts of the world, of the gamut of life from birth to death." A classic and inspiring work, The Family of Manhas been in print for more than forty years. The New York Times once wrote that it "symbolizes the universality of human emotions." First produced by a magazine publisher and sold by the hundreds of thousands on newsstands and in airport shops, The Family of Man has been in more recent years published by the Museum. It has been continuously in print since 1955; the present Thirtieth Anniversary Edition was prepared from original photographs with all new duotone plates in 1986. ... Read more

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The Family of Man: still electrifies after 55 years...
There are many photo books that have been published over the years. Some are personal reflections, others are beautiful in an artistic sense, and some tell a story. Then there are a very few that stand out and weather the test of time, and enduring monument to what we refer to as the human condition.

Received a copy of Edward Steichen's book The Family Of Man as a present from a close friend who knew what it meant personally to me. Had mentioned it a number of times as being the one photo book that had moved me the most over the years, and this friend heard my words, and then responded by giving it to me as a birthday present.

It wasn't my first copy of this book.

I first encountered "The Family of Man" in my youth during a visit to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and remembered being electrified by the huge black & white photos of the faces in the exhibit. Steichen had started preparing this exhibition in the early '50s, appealing to professional and amateur photographers around the world in an attempt to explain vision of humankind through the universal language of photography. Millions of images from around the world were submitted.

Steichen and his assistant, Wayne Miller, selected over 500 photographs from more than 270 photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Robert Capa, Anna Riwkin-Brick, Robert Doisneau, and many more. The exhibition made its debut as "The Family of Man" in 1955 at MoMA, and was divided into various themes celebrating mankind at work, in love, as families, in war and peace, and more. The exhibition was turned into a book, this one here, and poet Carl Sandburg (Steichen's brother-in-law) wrote the introduction.

The exhibit later traveled in different versions to over 35 countries, and more than nine million people viewed it. It was presented to Luxembourg, Steichen's birthplace, and is on permanent display in Clervaux. The Family of Man photographic collection was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2003 in recognition of its immense historical value.

Got my first copy of this book in the '70s while in college, after the Vietnam Era and many of us were looking at mankind in general, and looking for hope. Came across this it in a bookstore while looking for something to express this hope, and remembering the exhibition from my youth, it struck a chord within. I showed it to friend, another student with similar interests, and upon this book we created a presentation that became an award-winner, one that we shared with many as part of a group multimedia presentation.

Somewhere in the midst of moves, my copy of the book was lost, and missed. Tried many times to describe it to friends and associates, but only a few had even heard of it as the years progressed. Found a very tattered and much used copy of it at a yard sale earlier this decade, but many of the pages were missing, and according to the woman selling it, her father had owned it and had framed many of the images.

But now I have it again, all due to my friend. And on the flyleaf this friend wrote some words to me that came from F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest work, "The Great Gatsby." That passage came from the end of the book, referring to Jay Gatsby's sacred green light, and in part reads: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Ceaselessly into the past... perhaps because the future is far too bleak, too depressing to see in your mind's eye. Hope may seem to be lost, but because of what we are, the family of man, we will still keep at it... and who knows, maybe someday we can accomplish our dreams.

To me, that's the ongoing meaning of this book.

Wonderful collection, but falls somewhat short of goal
I'm a photographer at the beginning of a project very similar to Steichen's "Family of Man" project.A colleague recommended "Family of Man" to me, and I of course wanted to study Steichen's collection to decide for myself what are its successes and failures and to get ideas with regard to my own project.

I absolutely loved the way the collection was organized!It began with those romantic stirrings between couples the world over, progressed through marriage, and then conception, birth, childhood, etc.The photography collection is all very beautiful and poignant and has representative works from many of the great photographers of the time.This would be a book well worth having, even absent the beautiful organization and greater purpose of the book.

Where the collection fell short of its goal is that it was overweight with American photography.I don't have anything against American photography.Indeed, I'm an American photographer!However, the intent of the project was to show the viewer the commonalities of mankind the world over -- to "prove" that we are all the same in so many ways.The overweighting in American images (perhaps 50% of the collection) and the overall paucity of non-Western images made this project much less comparative than it aspired to be.It is possible the project was originally intended to play mostly to an American audience, in which case the overweighting of American and Western imagery might be understandable.

I would also mention that certain themes are only barely addressed.Steichen was apparently somewhat timid to address the negative attributes of humanity, such as violence, greed, warfare, etc.Although these themes were briefly touched on, the material was sufficiently scarce as to lose almost all impact and comparative value.The overall focus of the collection seemed to be to make us feel good about humanity.(It did succeed in this respect.)

Finally, this project is over a half century old.Many cultures and societies have changed so much over this time, particularly with the industrialization of many third-world countries.This project bears repeating in the early 21st Century.

In summary, this collection/book does have its shortcomings and failings, but it is so beautiful a collection (and so nicely printed in the hard copy) that it is absolutely worth owning and studying.I give it 5 stars, despite its shortcomings, because of the beauty of the photography and the merit and importance of its goals.

The genetics of love
This now classic collection of photographs, prose and poetry depicts the human family in all our varieties and similarities. In the maddening fast pace time we live in, where we are presented with false dichotomies and "news" that promotes division and futility of purpose this book - this magnificent book - draws the reader into a calmer, slower pace, awe inspiring appreciation for the beauty and wonder of our species. When I first opened its pages I was skeptical - prepared to be disappointedby another commercial knock off that pretends to be one thing and ends with a solicitation tobuy into some self serving, blame evoking finger pointing view, on the one hand, or an unrealistic, romanticized characterization of a simple and simplistic view of the good old days.An hour into the book I was completely captured by the poets and artists portrayal of the human family.This book will become a center piece of my family library - a resource of hope in a time of perpetual crises. Do yourself a favor - obtain a copy and rediscover our human family.

Great Book
This is the catalog of the most famous photo exhibit of all time. It reflects not only great photography, but also the post-war optimism of the era. This edition is affordable, but the printing is good and the size is OK for most bookshelves. Highly recommend.

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I was very happy with the end result of this purchase. The person I dealt with was honest and straight forward. The book arrived promptly.
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Presents Sandburg's fanciful, humorous tales peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others. ... Read more

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unique and wonderful childrens literature
Is it possible in a half dozen pages to produce a credible and moving story ofthe love of two skyscrapers andthe sorrowful loss of their child, a train? Only for Carl Sandburg, I dare say. I'm not sure whorequests this book more often, me or my 7-year-olddaughter, but thesebite-size, fabulous stories increase their charm with each rereading. Eachstory is a treasure. This book is a must-have for anyone who lovesbeautiful and fantastic story telling. ... Read more

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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An enjoyable read
Some purists criticize Sandburg, but he tells a good story and has something to back him up even if his standards are looser than those used by some historians. This book's supplementary collection of correspondence from acquaintances of young Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln is valuable.Noted scholar Paul Angle collaborated with Sandburg on this volume. ... Read more