The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It

By Carl Sandburg and Sandburg

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156954877
• ISBN13: 9780156954877
• Release Date: October 1978
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 10.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

One of the best children's stories ever....

In the late '60s and early '70s, my mother read this story to my sister and me - MANY times - from a collection of bedtime stories that had belonged to her younger sister (my aunt). We still talk about "chubbing our chubs" and having a "chocolate chin" in the regular course of family conversation. I was delighted to find that this, and other Carl Sandburg stories, are still in print. His clever use of language and image puts him in a rather elite group of writers. Sandburg helped me to develop an abiding love and respect for words and a feeling of expectant wonder every time I open a new book. There are a few children's books that I recommend without qualification. Needless to say, this is one of them. (Others in this category include: Ogden Nash's "Animal Garden" and Lore Segal's "Tell Me a Mitzy" and "Tell Me a Trudy.") If you have not read "The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It," do it now!

such happy memories

This was truly my favorite book as a child. I was surprised to find it available. Many happy hours were spent on my mother'slap reading and looking at the unique pictures. I hope my Johnnieloves it also!

Probably my favorite children's book

I don't even have kids and I'm ordering this book just to have around the house. Though I haven't read it in probably 25 years, I can still recite whole passages from it. I only wish it were still available in hardcover.

This was my very favorite book as a child.

I can remember checking this book out from the library dozens of times when I was a child. My mother finally insisted that I learn to read it myself, since she had long since tired of it. It was one of the first books that I could read. I loved the pictues, and the whole procession of Spoon-lickers and Easy-ticklers and Dirty-bibs delighted me each time. I read this book to my own children many times.