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1) Great American folklore: legends, tales, ballads, and superstitions from all across America

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

c1986

Physical Desc

644 p. : ill.

2) Very short tall tales to read together

Author

Hoberman, Mary Ann

Series

You read to me I'll read to you

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Pub. Date

[2014]

Physical Desc

32 pages : colored illustrations ; 29 cm

Description

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A latest collection in the best-selling series provides illustrated, easy-to-read adaptations of popular folk tales that celebrate the adventures of such characters as Johnny Appleseed, Annie Oakley and Paul Bunyan.

3) Animal folk tales of America: Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, The jumping frog, Davy Crockett, Johnny Appleseed, Sweet Betsy, and many others

Author

Palazzo, Tony

Publisher

Sterling

Pub. Date

c2010

Physical Desc

72 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

Description

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Retells fourteen American folktales focusing on the role animals played in American pioneer heritage.

4) Scary stories to tell in the dark: collected from folklore

Author

Schwartz, Alvin

Series

Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 1

Publisher

Harper

Pub. Date

2010

Physical Desc

113 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Description

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Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.