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The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It
The Rag Doll was blessed with many friends ― the Wisk Broom, the Furnace Shovel, and the Coffee Pot among them ― but when it came time to marry, she chose the Broom Handle. On the day of their wedding, the bride and groom were attended by a fantastical procession of well-wishers: the Spoon Lickers, the Tin Pan Bangers, the Easy Ticklers, the Musical Soup Eaters, and other whimsical characters, all marching along in a manner befitting their extraordinary names.
This tale of wedding pomp and madcap mirth comes from poet Carl Sandburg's classic book of American fairy tales, The Rootabaga Stories. Marvelous drawings by Harriet Pincus, a noted illustrator of children's books, enhance the tale. Out of print for years, the book is now available in a new edition that introduces the story and its gloriously antic art to a new generation of parade-lovers, wedding-goers, and everyone who enjoys a fanciful celebration.
This tale of wedding pomp and madcap mirth comes from poet Carl Sandburg's classic book of American fairy tales, The Rootabaga Stories. Marvelous drawings by Harriet Pincus, a noted illustrator of children's books, enhance the tale. Out of print for years, the book is now available in a new edition that introduces the story and its gloriously antic art to a new generation of parade-lovers, wedding-goers, and everyone who enjoys a fanciful celebration.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 1967
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Carl Sandburg
765 books340 followersFree verse poems of known American writer Carl August Sandburg celebrated American people, geography, and industry; alongside his six-volume biography
Abraham Lincoln
(1926-1939), his collections of poetry include
Smoke and Steel
(1920).
This best editor won Pulitzer Prizes. Henry Louis Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_San...
This best editor won Pulitzer Prizes. Henry Louis Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_San...
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January 28, 2008
this is the most f-ed up children's book ever, but also the best.
January 22, 2008
One of my all-time favorite children's books. The quirky illustrations and mesmerizing language are so different from any other book in this genre.
February 8, 2012
This was a wierd book that we had when I was growing up. I kind of liked it, but kind of thought it was psychotic. Can't really put my finger on how I feel about it.
On the hardcover shelf.
On the hardcover shelf.
July 23, 2010
A rediscovered favorite from childhood. It reads a little differently as an adult (it seems much weirder), but as a kid I loved it. Wonderful pictures and very fun text - imaginative and silly.
August 15, 2015
My all-time favorite children's book.
August 23, 2022
This is one of my favorite books. My father use to read it to me and now I read it to my sons. My youngest loves it just like his mommy💜
October 8, 2022
Pure unadulterated nonsense! Surely a delight to young children!
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September 15, 2023The rag doll and the broom handle got married and they had a grand procession with their friends and family. This book would be a good book for younger kids and learning comprehension of what is happening in the book. I would have them put the different scenes in the book in order of how they happened.
April 20, 2018
I really enjoy strange books. And this one is one of the oddest ones I have read. Words that don't really go together somehow do in this quirky list narrative.
June 1, 2024
The illustrations are typical 1960s surreal. They're colorful pen and ink line drawings. They also bring to mind the illustrations of Maurice Sendak, who was a contemporary of Harriet Pincus.
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February 22, 2014
James had this book when he was a kid. I fell in love with this book as an adult. Conrad thinks this book is silly and gives us gentle tickles when we get to the page with the Easy Ticklers. The pictures are fabulous and I can't get enough of the easily understood made up words or the color scheme.
January 27, 2013
A family favorite.
May 5, 2008
This was one of my favorite books as a kid. It still rings true today.
May 2, 2017
One of my favorites growing up, sweet, funny, and great illustrations.
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August 7, 2017The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It
ขบวนงานแต่งงานของตุ๊กตาและด้ามไม้กวาดและและคนที่อยู่ในนั้น
The Rag Doll had many friends. The Whisk Broom, the Furnace Shovel, the Coffee Pot, they all liked the Rag Doll very much.
ตุ๊กตาผ้าขี้ริ้วมีเพื่อนมาก ไม้กวาดตะกร้อมือ เตาขุด หม้อกาแฟ พวกเขาทั้งหมดชอบตุ๊กตาผ้าขี้ริ้วมาก
But when the Rag Doll married, it was the Broom Handle she picked because the Broom Handle fixed her eyes.
แต่เมื่อตุ๊กตาผ้าขี้ริ้วแต่งงาน ที่เธอเลือกไม้กวาด เนื่องจากไม้กวาดจัดการแก้ไขดวงตาของเธอ
A proud child, proud but careless, banged the head of the Rag Doll against a door one day and knocked off both the glass eyes sewed on long ago. It was then the Broom Handle found two black California prunes, and fastened the two California prunes just where the eyes belonged. So then the Rag Doll had two fine black eyes brand new. She was even nicknamed Black Eyes by some people.
There was a wedding when the Rag Doll married the Broom Handle. It was a grand wedding with one of the grandest processions ever seen at a rag doll wedding. And we are sure no broom handle ever had a grander wedding procession when he got married.
Who marched in the procession? Well, first came the Spoon Lickers. Every one of them had a tea spoon, or a soup spoon, though most of them had a big table spoon. On the spoons, what did they have? Oh, some had butter scotch, some had gravy, some had marshmallow fudge. Every one had something slickery sweet or fat to eat on the spoon. And as they marched in the wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle, they licked their spoons and looked around and licked their spoons again.
Next came the Tin Pan Bangers. Some had dishpans, some had frying pans, some had potato peeling pans. All the pans were tin with tight tin bottoms. And the Tin Pan Bangers banged with knives and forks and iron and wooden bangers on the bottoms of the tin pans. And as they marched in the wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle they banged their pans and looked around and banged again.
Then came the Chocolate Chins. They were all eating chocolates. And the chocolate was slippery and slickered all over their chins. Some of them spattered the ends of their noses with black chocolate. Some of them spread the brown chocolate nearly up to their ears. And then as they marched in the wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle they stuck their chins in the air and looked around and stuck their chins in the air again.
Then came the Dirty Bibs. They wore plain white bibs, checker bibs, stripe bibs, blue bibs and bibs with butterflies. But all the bibs were dirty. The plain white bibs were dirty, the checker bibs were dirty, the stripe bibs, the blue bibs and the bibs with butterflies on them, they were all dirty. And so in the wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle, the Dirty Bibs marched with their dirty fingers on the bibs and they looked around and laughed and looked around and laughed again.
Next came the Clean Ears. They were proud. How they got into the procession nobody knows. Their ears were all clean. They were clean not only on the outside but they were clean on the inside. There was not a speck of dirt or dust or muss or mess on the inside nor the outside of their ears. And so in the wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle, they wiggled their ears and looked around and wiggled their ears again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG_Yt...
ขบวนงานแต่งงานของตุ๊กตาและด้ามไม้กวาดและและคนที่อยู่ในนั้น
The Rag Doll had many friends. The Whisk Broom, the Furnace Shovel, the Coffee Pot, they all liked the Rag Doll very much.
ตุ๊กตาผ้าขี้ริ้วมีเพื่อนมาก ไม้กวาดตะกร้อมือ เตาขุด หม้อกาแฟ พวกเขาทั้งหมดชอบตุ๊กตาผ้าขี้ริ้วมาก
But when the Rag Doll married, it was the Broom Handle she picked because the Broom Handle fixed her eyes.
แต่เมื่อตุ๊กตาผ้าขี้ริ้วแต่งงาน ที่เธอเลือกไม้กวาด เนื่องจากไม้กวาดจัดการแก้ไขดวงตาของเธอ
A proud child, proud but careless, banged the head of the Rag Doll against a door one day and knocked off both the glass eyes sewed on long ago. It was then the Broom Handle found two black California prunes, and fastened the two California prunes just where the eyes belonged. So then the Rag Doll had two fine black eyes brand new. She was even nicknamed Black Eyes by some people.
There was a wedding when the Rag Doll married the Broom Handle. It was a grand wedding with one of the grandest processions ever seen at a rag doll wedding. And we are sure no broom handle ever had a grander wedding procession when he got married.
Who marched in the procession? Well, first came the Spoon Lickers. Every one of them had a tea spoon, or a soup spoon, though most of them had a big table spoon. On the spoons, what did they have? Oh, some had butter scotch, some had gravy, some had marshmallow fudge. Every one had something slickery sweet or fat to eat on the spoon. And as they marched in the wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle, they licked their spoons and looked around and licked their spoons again.
Next came the Tin Pan Bangers. Some had dishpans, some had frying pans, some had potato peeling pans. All the pans were tin with tight tin bottoms. And the Tin Pan Bangers banged with knives and forks and iron and wooden bangers on the bottoms of the tin pans. And as they marched in the wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle they banged their pans and looked around and banged again.
Then came the Chocolate Chins. They were all eating chocolates. And the chocolate was slippery and slickered all over their chins. Some of them spattered the ends of their noses with black chocolate. Some of them spread the brown chocolate nearly up to their ears. And then as they marched in the wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle they stuck their chins in the air and looked around and stuck their chins in the air again.
Then came the Dirty Bibs. They wore plain white bibs, checker bibs, stripe bibs, blue bibs and bibs with butterflies. But all the bibs were dirty. The plain white bibs were dirty, the checker bibs were dirty, the stripe bibs, the blue bibs and the bibs with butterflies on them, they were all dirty. And so in the wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle, the Dirty Bibs marched with their dirty fingers on the bibs and they looked around and laughed and looked around and laughed again.
Next came the Clean Ears. They were proud. How they got into the procession nobody knows. Their ears were all clean. They were clean not only on the outside but they were clean on the inside. There was not a speck of dirt or dust or muss or mess on the inside nor the outside of their ears. And so in the wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle, they wiggled their ears and looked around and wiggled their ears again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG_Yt...
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