Rootabaga Country

Which is your favorite of the Rootabaga Stories and why?
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• Chab Guthrie says:
  The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child.
  "This has been my favorite Rootabaga Story since I first read it almost 30 years ago. (I was 30 or just about then.) It is poetic, funny, touching, and sublimely American.
  I used to inaugurate new coffeehouse seasons by reading it. The skyscrapers never failed to elicit a satisfactory response from the audience."
  Chab's very close seconds: How to Tell Corn Fairies... How They Broke Away... White Horse Girl & Blud Wind Boy...
• Kate says:
  The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle. This is a great story because all the marchers are funny and we can identify with at least one group.
• Matt says:
  My favorite Rootabaga Story is the Five Marvelous pretzels. When I was young, I loved to go to the circus and parade. The Five Marvelous Pretzels got to be in the Parade. I envied them. I only wish that is was available for print somewhere. Any ideas?
• Dale Powell says:
  I love "Bozo the Button Buster". I think I have known quite a few people who bust buttons in peoples faces.

I don't know much about it but here's the link to a blurb about it:
The Rootabaga Opera

I learned from John Hayes of Five and Dime Jazz about a Rootabaga Play last year in McCall, Idaho.

John said:

The play was produced in December 2006 by the McCall-Donnelly High School Drama Troupe. It had a three-day (Thurs-Sat) run at a local theater called the Alpine Playhouse in McCall, Idaho. Besides being the site of winter & spring school plays, the Alpine puts on a Winter Carnival & summer play, & also hosts the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in June each year. There are also some music shows & film screenings at the Alpine.

The play was adapted from the Rootabage Stories by Judy Anderson, who's the McCall-Donnelly drama teacher; Judy also directed the play. Besides writing her own plays, Judy has done a number of adaptations-- right now she's working on an adaptation of Tove Jansson's "Moomipappa at Sea"-- we've worked a lot with Judy, & will be doing music for the Moominpappa play as well.

When I was a child no more than four, somebody, perhaps my Grand-mother, or my cousin, read me a good book. The illustrations were magical, and although they were not brightly coloured pictures, the stark black line illustrations had a balance and a power. I could never remember the title of this good book, or who wrote it, yet it had a power. There was something about Medicine Hat and the animals losing their tails and getting them back, an image of a wizard sitting on a mountain top, and a man-faced cat reading a newspaper with the light bulb on the end of his tail. As time went on and the memories of early childhood were shuffled to more remote positions, I couldn’t even remember If the good book and these strange images were real or imagined; whether someone had actually read it to me, or if it was a perpetual figment of my dreams.