{"product_id":"fables-foibles-and-foobles","title":"Fables, Foibles, and Foobles","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eCarl Sandburg (1878-1967) is best known for his poetry (\u003ci\u003eChicago Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmoke and Steel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGood Morning, America\u003c\/i\u003e), his books for children, including \u003ci\u003eRootabaga Country\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePotato Face\u003c\/i\u003e, and his six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Illinois author devoted his life to writing, lecturing, reading from his own works, and collecting and singing folk songs.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Sandburg often incorporated proverbs, riddles, aphorisms, and vernacular wisdom in lectures, poetry, children’s stories, and in his novel \u003ci\u003eRemembrance Rock\u003c\/i\u003e. Believing that silliness and fun helped preserve sanity and balance, he put together a collection of fanciful anecdotes - alive with alliteration - for his own amusement. Now, more than twenty years after his death, the publication of \u003ci\u003eFables, Foibles, and Foobles\u003c\/i\u003e truly reveals, for perhaps the first time, the playful spirit of this great American poet.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e George Hendrick has compiled the best of these never-before-published nonsensical pieces, which include Flies, Fleas, Flinyons, Flicks, Flooches, Flacks, Flatches, and assorted F-friends deep in dialogue about books and reading; the fascinating worlds of the curious hoomadooms, hongdorshes, and onkadonks; fables to rival Thurber; jokes about every conceivable type of nut; and cameo appearances by Hank the Honk and Flitty the Wid, among others. Robert Harvey’s whimsical drawings, scattered throughout the book, illuminate this charming cast of characters.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Carl Sandburg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616116269436,"sku":"9780252060182","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_b1d2302f-70ef-44b3-9873-f845d18b2e6b.jpg?v=1746711450","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/fables-foibles-and-foobles","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}