Download or read book Southern Jack Tales written by Donald Davis and published by august house. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirteen Jack tales from the southern Appalachian Mountains, including "The Time Jack Told a Big Tale," "The Time Jack Cured the Doctor," and "The Time Jack Stole the Cows."
Download or read book Southern Jack Tales written by Donald Davis and published by . This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirteen Jack tales from the southern Appalachian Mountains, including "The Time Jack Told a Big Tale", "The Time Jack Cured the Doctor", and "The Time Jack Stole the Cows".
Download or read book The Jack Tales written by Richard Chase and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. A collection of Appalachian folktales includes the adventures of Jack And The Beanstalk.
Download or read book Grandfather Tales written by Richard Chase and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only people who can tell these stories better than Richard Chase are the folks in North Carolina and Virginia who told them to him. These stories have been handed down for generations and have been enjoyed by grownups and children alike.
Download or read book The Jack Tales written by and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From climbing beanstalks to confronting beasts, the classic collection of “lively, entertaining stories . . . a valuable contribution to American folklore” (The New York Times). These rollicking folk tales from the southern Appalachians center on the many adventures of the irrepressible Jack, and showcase the wit and wisdom passed down from generation to generation through the oral tradition. It provides hours of delight for children—as well as an enjoyable and enlightening read for students of folklore and storytelling. “Humor, freshness, colorful American background, and the use of one character as a central figure in the cycle mark these eighteen folk tales, told here in the dialect of the mountain country of North Carolina.” —Booklist “Filled from cover to cover with good, rousing, exciting stories.” —Saturday Review of Literature “An appendix of sources and parallel themes to be found in other folklore is a scholarly and fascinating contribution . . . I’m glad it is placed at the end so that children will not be deterred from reading the stories for sheer fun.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Jack Always Seeks His Fortune written by Donald Davis and published by August House Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While growing up in the mountains of western North Carolina, Davis heard stories that most American children never heard--stories that came to America through Scotch-Irish immigrants about Jack, a universal figure who is found in nearly every culture by various names. Davis was a featured storyteller at SEBA last year and at ALA this summer.
Download or read book Jack in Two Worlds written by William Bernard McCarthy and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Jack" known to all of us from "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in Two Worlds is a unique collection that brings together eight of these stories as transcribed from ac
Download or read book The Jack Tales written by Richard Chase and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handed down from one storyteller to another for generations in the Southern Appalachians, each folktale in this collection centers on a single colorful character, the irrepressible Jack. Black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book Storytellers written by John A. Burrison and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 260 of the rural South's best stories collected over a twenty year period, with their roots in Anglo-Saxon, African-American, and Native American traditions
Download or read book The Jack Tales written by Richard Chase and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ray Hicks written by Robert Isbell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where
Download or read book Mountain Jack Tales written by Gail E. Haley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-03-29 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack is the universal folk hero and adventurer. Tales of Jack's adventures are as timeless as bedrock but as fresh as dawn in the Appalachian Mountains. Whether besting ogres, outsmarting flatland card sharps, wrestling with ornery witches, or even taking on Old Man Death himself, the plainspoken hero's common sense, goodness and hill-country humor help him come out on top every time. "In a lucid, vibrant voice, Caldecott Medalist Haley recounts stories that originate in the rugged North Carolina Mountain country ... Haley's use of metaphor, hyperbole and dialect captures the playful spirit of mountain lore. Her emotive, elaborate wood engravings, as well as her afterwords about the stories, the art and language itself, enrich this boyant anthology." -Publishers Weekly Haley's "spirited retellings are salted with backwoods language ... and illustrated with wood engravings that are full of energy, comedy and magical creatures." -Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book The Jack Tales written by Richard Chase and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handed down from one storyteller to another for generations in the Southern Appalachians, each folktale in this collection centers on a single colorful character, the irrepressible Jack. Black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book The Jack Tales written by Richard Chase and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an American version of the story of Jack and the beanstalk, together with 17 other tales about the adventures of Jack, a poor Appalachian farm boy.
Download or read book Crossroads written by Brett Cox and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich brew of the Southern Literary Fantastic
Download or read book The Jack Tales written by Richard Chase and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tale of Jack Frost written by David Melling and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was once a group of trees who were fed up with living in a deep, dark and crowded valley - so they moved to the enchanted forest. But as everybody knows, trees cannot walk without magic. This is the story of how Jack, the small boy with the frozen touch, wanders in to the forest and ends up saving the magic from the greedy goblins outside. An exquisitely illustrated and beautifully told story. 'An enchanting story, perfect for frosty nights.' - Junior David Melling is one of the UK's best-loved author-illustrators. The Hugless Douglas series has sold over 1.4 million copies in 26 languages. Hello, Hugless Douglas! was a World Book Day picture book in 2014.
