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1) Big men, big country : a collection of American tall tales

Author

Walker, Paul Robert

Publisher

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Pub. Date

c1993

Physical Desc

79 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Description

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A collection of American tall tales featuring such legendary characters as Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, and Pecos Bill.

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

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

c1986

Physical Desc

644 p. : ill.

3) American tall tales

Author

Osborne, Mary Pope

Description

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A collection of tall tales about such American folk heroes as Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan.

4) 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.

5) Leaping Beauty: and other animal fairy tales

Author

Maguire, Gregory

Description

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Who better to wreak havoc with eight beloved fairytales than Gregory Maguire, the brilliantly funny author of the adult novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, as well as of the hilarious middle–grade series, The Hamlet Chronicles. Zany animals of all species run through these fractured tales with alarming speed and dexterity. Who would have thought that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy– tales, could be twisted...

6) Roy makes a car

Author

Lyons, Mary E

Publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

c2005

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 29 cm.

Description

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Roy Tyle, the best mechanic in the state of Florida, can clean spark plugs by just looking at them, and he takes a two-dollar bet that he can make an accident-proof car.

7) The people could fly: American Black folktales

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

Publisher

Distributed by Random House

Pub. Date

1993

Physical Desc

xii, 178 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Appears on list

Award Winning Books for Kids

Description

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Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.

8) The Berenstain Bears' big bedtime book

Author

Berenstain, Stan

Series

Berenstain Bears

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

c2008

Physical Desc

48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Description

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Join the bear cubs and their babysitter Mrs. Grizzle in six of their favorite fairy tales featuring Papa, Mama, Brother, Sister, and Honey Bear.

9) 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.

10) 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.