This book is part of a book series called Poetry For Young People .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

There are 480 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Houghton Mifflin .

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, first in 1940 for his biography of Abraham Lincoln and again in 1951 for Complete Poems. Before becoming known as a poet, he worked as a milkman, an ice harvester, a dishwasher, a salesman, a fireman, and a journalist. Among his classics are the Rootabaga Stories, which he wrote for his young daughters at the beginning of his long and distinguished literary career. Paul Bacon also illustrated Susanna of the Alamo. He lives in Clintondale, New York. Kate Benzel, PhD, is a Carl Sandburg scholar and professor emerita at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, where she is currently transcribing and annotating Sandburg's early unpublished notebooks.