Maud Fuller Petersham

Retells the Bible story of Moses, who was hidden from the Egyptians as a baby, and who led his people across the Red Sea and into the wilderness in search of the Promised Land.

American author and poet Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), best known for the poetry that attributed to two of his three Pulitzer Prizes, also wrote histories, biographies, novels, and children's stories. Born in Illinois, Sandburg spent most of his life in the Midwest before moving to North Carolina in 1945, where he lived till his death. In the early 1920s Sandburg began writing children's stories for his three daughters, beginning with his "Rootabaga...