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Children's Folk Tales
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John Henry, an American Legend by Ezra Jack Keats Publisher Comments Illus. in full color. The Caldecott Medalist's powerful classic is now reissued in a handsome paperback edition, as well as a library edition.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg Publisher Comments "The anecdotes associated with Texas's fabled cowboy hero burst from the pages in rapid succession, Kellogg's robust illustrations enlarging and enriching the energetic text."--School Library Journal. "A read-aloud treat....One of Kellogg's best... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandle Harris Publisher Comments This collection contains all eight of the Uncle Remus stories, along with theoriginal artwork that accompanied them. Illustrations.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton Publisher Comments In the tradition of Hamilton's The People Could Fly and In the Beginning, a dramatic new collection of 25 compelling tales from the female African American storytelling tradition. Each story focuses on the role of women--both real and fantastic--and... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wicked Jack by Connie N Wooldridge Publisher Comments When he dies, a mean blacksmith is rejected by both St. Peter and the Devil.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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John Henry by Julius Lester Publisher Comments John Henry is stronger than ten men, and can dig through a mountain faster than a steam drill. Julius Lester's folksy retelling of a popular African-American folk ballad has warmth, tall tale humor, and boundless energy. Jerry Pinkney illustrates the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris Publisher Comments Presents the legends, songs, and sayings of Uncle Remus, following the text of the first edition of Joel Chandler Harris' attempt to record traditional black stories of his... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Dust Devil by Anne Isaacs Publisher Comments Here is the thrilling, thigh-slapping companion to Swamp Angel, the beloved Caldecott Honor–winning picture book. Swamp Angel has a reputation as the greatest woodswoman and wildest wildcat in all of Tennessee. But when she grows too big for that... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs Publisher Comments Working in an American primitive style animated by the humor and storytelling genius for which he is renowned, Caldecott Winner artist Paul O. Zelinsky puts oils to cherry and maple for this tall-tale competition between a Tennessee woods-woman... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny: An Original African American Scare Tale by Virginia Hamilton Publisher Comments Virginia Hamilton draws upon her extensive knowledge of folktales in this "scare tale," in which young James Lee discovers his Uncle Big Anthony has been cursed by a Wee Winnie Witch, who rides him like a broom across the night sky.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Favorite Uncle Remus by Harris Publisher Comments This book brings together for the first time in one volume the best stories of Joel Chandler Harris.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be by William J Faulkner Synopsis Presents more than 20 Afro-American folktales featuring the escapades of Brer Rabbit and more than 10 tales describing the lives of Afro-American slaves.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rip Van Winkle by Irving Publisher Comments This is the story of Rip Van Winkle--that curious fellow, who with his dog, Wolf, ran away from a hard day's work to the Catskill Mountains only to discover in a forgotten valley a strange band of revelers who gave him a drink so powerful he slept for... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Big Turtle by David Mclimans Publisher Comments Breathing new life into traditional storytelling, David McLimans takes an exciting step into the world of folktales with another stunning visual feast. At the start of Big Turtle, the world only had two parts: the animals in the lower Water World and the... (read more) List Price $18.89 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Irving Publisher Comments Remember Sleepy Hollow? The place where the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane met his fate during an infamous encounter with the headless horseman? Now, Will Moses offers a nostalgic look at this legend using his own detailed, full-color folk illustrations... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tailypo: A Newfangled Tall Tale by Angela Shelf Medearis Synopsis On a farm in the Texas Hill Country, a young boy confronts a strange critter that tries to steal his family's last meal.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (Tales of Uncle Remus) by Julius Lester Publisher Comments "Lester has retold 48 of the folktales in standard English but with a strong feel for the dialect of the original stories . . . as lively as the originals but they also have a liveliness of their own, as he incorporates modern allusions which never seem... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sam and the Tigers: A New Telling of Little Black Sambo by Julius Lester Publisher Comments Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman is re-created in a black southern storytelling voice in which the storyteller is involved--a voice readers may recognize from his retellings of The Tales of Uncle Remus, among others. He turns Sam's deals with hungry... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Three Witches by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments The three bad witches are HUNGRY! "Let's eat these children," they say. They may have teeth that are longer than their lips and they may wear high heels, but they are NO match for two smart children, their brave grandma, three hound dogs, and a fast... (read more) List Price $16.89 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Grandfather Tales by Richard Chase Publisher Comments A collection of folk tales from North Carolina and Virginia for a slightly older audience than that for Chase's Jack Tales.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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