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Children's Picture Books
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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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Johnny Appleseed by Reeve Lindbergh Publisher Comments Rhymed text and illustrations relate the life of John Chapman, whose distribution of apple seeds and trees across the Midwest made him a legend and left a legacy still enjoyed today.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg Publisher Comments The larger-than-life story of a true American hero -- John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. Kellogg "is ideal as interpreter of this fascinating man....[His] color has never been so rich and luxuriant....An affectionate portrayal... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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American Tall Tales by Adrien Stoutenburg Publisher Comments Here are the most robust characters in American legend. Told by a poet with a poet's ear for the impact of words, these American mavericks walk and talk accross the pages in a free, wide way, as they walked and talked accross the free, wide America of... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lady in the Blue Cloak: Legends from the Texas Missions by Eric A Kimmel Publisher Comments For each mission in Texas, there is a rich and complicated history. Now Kimmel retells six of these legends about four Texas missions. In the title story, a mysterious woman in blue visits the Tejas people to prepare them for the missionaries' arrival... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Davy Crockett: His Own Story by David Crockett Publisher Comments A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee. Written in 1834, this autobiography is like a tall tale of the life of a frontiersman, and established Davy Crockett as a larger-than-life American hero.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit by Joel Harris Publisher Comments Follow the adventures of crafty B'rer Rabbit and his friends in seven playful folktales with roots in traditional African stories. Told and retold for hundreds of years, this young-reader's version of these folktales retains the original humor and wisdom,... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Book Club Hardcover
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Davy Crockett Saves the World by Rosalyn Schanzer Publisher Comments What will happen when the great Davy Crockett comes head to head with Halley's Comet? It's the biggest fiercest ball of fire ire that EVER lit up the heavens! (And why does Davy Crockett wear a coonskin cap anyway?) Rosalyn Schanzer peppers her telling... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) by Washington Irving Publisher Comments Ichabod Crane faces the terror of the Headless Horseman, and Rip Van Winkle rises from a 20-year sleep to find a world vastly changed in these two delightful classics of American literature. Complete and unabridged, newly reset in easy-to-read type, with... (read more) List Price $3.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories: And Other Stories by Washington Irving Publisher Comments The legendary enchantment of Rip Van Winkle; the gruesome end of Ichabod Crane, who met the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow; the Spectre Bridegroom who turned out to be happily substantial; the pride of an English village and the come-uppance of the... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paula Bunyan by Phyllis Root Publisher Comments Bounding with oversize visual and verbal humor, here is the previously untold story of Paul Bunyans “little” sister, who was as tall as a pine tree, as strong as a dozen moose, and could run so fast that she once ran all the way back to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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With a Whoop and a Holler by Nancy Van Laan Publisher Comments In this rich, rousing anthology, Nancy Van Laan takes readers on a romp through the bayous, mountains, and lowlands of the American South. Her retellings are full of energy, spunk, and that distinctive voice that makes Southern stories among our nation's... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Legend of Strap Buckner: A Texas Tale by Connie N Wooldridge Publisher Comments Strap Buckner was a man of genius, and his genius was to knock people down. He knocked down new settlers as a welcome. He knocked down Bob Turket to say howdy. He even knocked down Chief Tuleahcahoma, who was so impressed he gave Strap a swift gray nag... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Mike Fink: A Tall Tale by Steven Kellogg Publisher Comments Mike Fink, the larger-than-life hero of one of America's favorite tall tales, was the most daring and rugged frontiersman on any American river. A runaway at two days old, Mike eventually grew up to be King of the Keelboatmen--the strong, rowdy men who... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne Publisher Comments Celebrating the 15th anniversary of these collection of tales. There are among nine "tall" heroes featured in this exuberant collection of traditional American folk tales, including Paul Bunyan, JohnnyAppleseed, John Henry, and other American... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paul Bunyan 20th Anniversary Edition by Steven Kellogg Publisher Comments Who was the largest baby ever born in the state of Maine? Who dug the Great Lakes? Who gouged out the Grand Canyon? Why, Paul Bunyan, of course, America's finest, fastest, funniest lumberman and favorite tall-tale hero.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rip Van Winkle: Washington Irving by Irving Publisher Comments Washington Irving's masterpiece has entranced readers for over 165 years, and though many artists have illustrated this classic, none has so perfectly captured the mysterious adventures of Rip and the boisterous crew of Dutchmen as the great American... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paul Bunyan vs. Hals Halson: The Giant Lumberjack Challenge! by Teresa Bateman Publisher Comments Paul Bunyan contends with a jealous rival lumberjack, but the two eventually become friends.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs Publisher Comments Swamp Angel can lasso a tornado, and drink an entire lake dry. She single-handedly defeats the fearsome bear known as Thundering Tarnation, wrestling him from the top of the Great Smoky Mountains to the bottom of a deep lake. Caldecott Medal-winning... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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New York's Bravest by Mary Pope Osborne Publisher Comments In the 1840s, there was a real vounteer firefighter named Mose Humphreys whose bravery was reknown throughout New York City. Plays about him began being performed on Broadway in 1848 and over the years his strength and heroics took on larger-than-life... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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