Download or read book American Tall Tales written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect addition to every family’s home library and just right for sharing aloud, American Tall Tales introduces readers to America’s first folk heroes in nine wildly exaggerated and downright funny stories. Here are Paul Bunyan, that king-sized lumberjack who could fell “ten white pines with a single swing”; John Henry, with his mighty hammer; Mose, old New York’s biggest, bravest fireman; Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, who could “outgrin, outsnort, outrun, outlift, outsneeze, outsleep, outlie any varmint”; and other uniquely American characters, together in one superb collection. In the tradition of the original nineteenth-century storytellers, Mary Pope Osborne compiles, edits, and adds her own two cents’ worth—and also supplies fascinating historical headnotes. Michael McCurdy’s robust colored wood engravings recall an earlier time, perfectly capturing all the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country out of the North American wilderness.
Download or read book Tall Tale America written by Walter Blair and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-01-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of American tall tale heroes- Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and others.
Download or read book Tall Tales of America written by Irwin Shapiro and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderful book is a collection of nine tall tales from America by renowned children’s author Irwin Shapiro: Pecos Bill, Anthony and the Mossbunker, Old Stormalong, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, the Yaller Blossom o’ the Forest, Sam Patch’s Last Leap, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Joe Magarac the Steel Man. Illustrated throughout by Al Schmidt.
Download or read book American Tall Tales written by Adrien Stoutenburg and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1976-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight exciting classic American Tall Tales! This collection includes the famed stories of Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Stormalong, Mike Fink, Davy Crockett, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Joe Magarac, with evocative illustrations by Richard M. Powers.
Download or read book Tall Tale America written by Walter Blair and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of American tall tale heroes--Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and others.
Download or read book Animal Folk Tales of America written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small collection of American tall tales featuring animals.
Download or read book Tall Tales written by Al Jaffee and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of the innovative vertical comic strip by the legendary MAD Magazine contributor—with an introduction by Stephen Colbert. Tall Tales was a one-of-a-kind newspaper strip that could only have come from the mind of Al Jaffee. While other newspaper strips are square, single-panel or multiple-panel horizontal gag cartoons, Jaffee, known for the Fold-In in MAD Magazine, once again altered the format of his work to create a vertical strip—the first, and last, in newspaper history. The original comic strip was syndicated internationally by the New York Herald Tribune from 1957–1963. This anthology contains the best 120 wordless strips out of over 2,200, scanned from the original files. The book features a new preface by Jaffee and an introduction by Stephen Colbert.
Download or read book Bella An American Tall Tale written by Kirsten Childs and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bella boards a train west to reunite with her Buffalo soldier sweetheart, she encounters the most colorful and lively characters ever to roam the Western plains. Bullets and fists will fly, heads and hearts will break, but—blessed with a big heart, and a voluptuous figure—Bella will breeze on through it all.
Download or read book Big Men Big Country written by Paul Robert Walker and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of American tall tales featuring such legendary characters as Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, and Pecos Bill.
Download or read book 12 Tall Tale Mini Books written by Jeannette Sanderson and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History meets humor in 12 tremendous tall-tale hero stories!
Download or read book Cuyahoga written by Pete Beatty and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel “Cuyahoga is tragic and comic, hilarious and inventive—a 19th-century legend for 21st-century America” (The Boston Globe). Big Son is a spirit of the times—the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself. The feats of this proto-superhero have earned him wonder and whiskey, but very little in the way of fortune. And without money, Big cannot become an honest husband to his beloved Cloe (who may or may not want to be his honest wife). In pursuit of a steady wage, our hero hits the (dirt) streets of Ohio City and Cleveland, the twin towns racing to become the first great metropolis of the West. Their rivalry reaches a boil over the building of a bridge across the Cuyahoga River—and Big stumbles right into the kettle. The resulting misadventures involve elderly terrorists, infrastructure collapse, steamboat races, wild pigs, and multiple ruined weddings. Narrating this “very funny, rambunctious debut novel” (Los Angeles Times) tale is Medium Son—known as Meed—apprentice coffin maker, almanac author, orphan, and the younger brother of Big. Meed finds himself swept up in the action, and he is forced to choose between brotherly love and his own ambitions. His uncanny voice—plain but profound, colloquial but poetic—elevates a slapstick frontier tale into a “breezy fable of empire, class, conquest, and ecocide” (The New York Times Book Review). Evoking the Greek classics and the Bible alongside nods to Looney Tunes, Charles Portis, and Flannery O’Connor, Pete Beatty has written “a hilarious and moving exploration of family, home, and fate [and] you won’t read anything else like it this year” (BuzzFeed).
Download or read book Cut from the Same Cloth written by Robert D. San Souci and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these folklore stories, the women of the U.S. typify the strength, bravery, and humor of many regions and cultures
Download or read book Pecos Bill written by James Cloyd Bowman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates some of the legends of Pecos Bill, from the moment he bounced out of his family's covered wagon to the day his long-lost brother appears and explains that Bill is not like the coyotes that have raised him.
Download or read book The Rainbow Book of American Folk Tales and Legends written by Maria Leach and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from American folklore about bad men, ghosts, lies, and Native American tales.
Download or read book Paul Bunyan written by and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1985-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures.
Download or read book Lies and Other Tall Tales written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIES AND OTHER TALL TALES These tales are so tall they touch the sky! From Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers and Zora Neale Hurston. While traveling in the Gulf States in the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston collected and recorded some real whoppers told by folks from all walks of life. Not "dog ate my homework" kind of lies, but tales so wild you didn't ever want to hear the truth. And now today's picture–book readers can enjoy these far–fetched fibs, with Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers's spirited adaption and bold, expressive collages.
Download or read book American Folklore and Legend written by Jane Polley and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated account presents an interesting history of folklore as well as a retelling of famous American legends.
