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From: benson@dcdwest.UUCP (Peter Benson)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.books
Subject: Children's books
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 12:49:51 EST
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Summary: 


Paul Dubois has recommended a children's book and it put me in mind of
a book that I read my children when they were young and in need of
stories and fantasies: Carl Sandburg's "Rootabaga Stories".  These are
stories that Sandburg made up for his kids, Spink and Skabootch.  The
stories are whimsical and wise, touching and funny.  They have a lot of
the sense of language that Sandburg shows in his poetry.  I first came
upon them as a teenager when my girl friend read them to me.  These
stories are worth your time.

Later, when my girls could read, we read aloud "The Princess Bride".
This too is a fanatastic book, which I would recommend to an older
audience.
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