Prairie-Town Boy

by Carl Sandburg, Joe Krush (Illustrator)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780152633325
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/24/1990
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.62(h) x (d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

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.