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1) Thunder Rose
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Language
English
Description
Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.
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Language
English
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Description
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
Author
Publisher
Quarrier Press
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
If you were ever a teenager in a small town then you know that the police don't always have enough to do. And so they come looking for you. Being conscientious young men, Skeeter and I endeavored to participate in activities which allowed local law enforcement to practice the skills that they had learned at the Academy. From creative way[s] to strike in "Strike Anywhere Matches," to "Jell-O Balloons," to subversive reasons to read in "There Are Things...
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Series
Publisher
August House Audio
Pub. Date
p2001.
Language
English
Description
There stands a bridge: Bil's version of Paul's favorite story, featuring the Monster Stick, a thousand dollars, a flat tire, and a mighty long bridge.
The seventh second: A CS&X coal car, a unique Swiss Army knife and some classic West Virginian ingenuity.
Jonah: the real story: Running away from God? Jump a train!
Buck ain't no ordinary dog: Bil tells how he tried to cure his hunting dog, Buck, of his gunshyness.
The Monster Stick's last ride:...
Author
Publisher
Old City Press
Pub. Date
p1997.
Language
English
Description
Travelling storyteller Joel ben Izzy takes us for a wild ride in this collection of tales about his liver lovin' days, train hopping hobos, moose turd pie and more. As with Joel ben Izzy's other award winning CDs and tapes, this one is a mix of classic tales along with his own adaptations. The title story tells of his disgust when he found, as a kid, that he would have to eat liver (yuck!), and how he went from there to liking liver, loving it in...
17) Stormalong
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Language
English
Description
Recounts some of the astounding adventures of the legendary New England sea captain who could tie an octopus in knots.
20) Ten tall tales
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda
Pub. Date
c1984.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Bird presents ten Western tall tales that he has heard throughout his life, some of them his own.
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