Gimme the Ax lived in a house where everything is the same as it always was. "The chimney sits on top of the house and lets the smoke out," said Gimme the Ax. "The doorknobs open the doors. The windows are always either open or shut. We are always either upstairs or downstairs in this house. Everything is the same as it always was." So he decided to let his children name themselves. "The first words they speak as soon as they learn to make words shall be their names," he said. "They shall name themselves."
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Gimme the Ax lived in a house where everything is the same as it always was. "The chimney sits on top of the house and lets the smoke out," said Gimme the Ax. "The doorknobs open the doors. The windows are always either open or shut. We are always either upstairs or downstairs in this house. Everything is the same as it always was." So he decided to let his children name themselves. "The first words they speak as soon as they learn to make words shall be their names," he said. "They shall name themselves."
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In my experience, not a lot of people know about these stories. My parents read them to me and they stuck in my head like poetry (they ARE a kind of poetry, really). Then I read them to my daughter, who seemed to disdain most children's books, but who loved the ROOTABAGA STORIES. Whenever someone I know has a new baby, I send the ROOTABAGA STORIES. they are magical, they will cunningly build in your child a deep appreciation of the music of language... No child should grow up without the unique pleasures of this wondrous prose.
it wasn't just my daughter who preferred these stories. I never tired of reading them aloud.
