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| Johnny Kaw- The Pioneer Spirit of Kansas
Kansas Katie - A Sunflower Tale Twister Twyla - The Kansas Cowgirl Kansas Tall Tales - A Special Tenth Anniversary Anthology Extending Johnny Kaw, Kansas Katie and Twister Twyla in the library and classroom |
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| Cohen, Caron Lee. Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett 1985. Greenwillow, 40 p. : col. ill. Sally Ann, wife of Davy Crockett, isn't afraid of anything. She proves it when Mike Fink tries to scare her. |
| Dewey, Adriane. The Narrow Escapes of Davy Crockett 1990. Greenwillow, 48 p. : col. ill. Recounts the wild adventures of Davy Crockett. |
| Emberley, Barbara. The Story of Paul Bunyan 1994. Simon & Schuster, (unpaged) : col. ill. Paul Bunyan, the mighty lumberjack, clears Iowa and Kansas of trees, digs the Mississippi River, and performs other deeds. |
| Gleiter, Jan, 1947- Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox 1985. Rand McNally, 32 p. : col. ill. Recounts tales of the famous logger from birth through logging, and from South Dakota to California. |
| Keats, Ezra Jack. John Henry: an American Legend 1965. Pantheon, (unpaged) : col. ill. |
| Kellogg, Steven. Johnny Appleseed : a Tall Tale 1988. Morrow, (unpaged) : col. ill. John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), loved nature, was kind to animals, and showed physical fortitude. Mike Fink : a Tall Tale 1992. Morrow, [40] p. : col. ill. Mike Fink's deeds as the frontiersman who became King of the Keelboatmen on the Mississippi. Paul Bunyan, a Tall Tale 1984. Morrow, [40] p. : col. ill. Pecos Bill: a Tall Tale 1986. Morrow, 40 p. : col. ill. The life of Pecos Bill, from his childhood with the coyotes to his marriage. Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett : a Tall Tale 1995. Morrow, (unpaged) : col. ill. Sally Ann, Davy Crockett's wife, is fearless despite Mike Fink's attempts to frighten her. |
| Lester, Julius. John Henry 1994. Dial, (unpaged) : col. ill. Recounts the story of the African American legend who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain. |
| Sanfield, Steve. A Natural Man : the True Story of John Henry 1986. D.R. Godine, 48 p. : ill. The story of the steel driving man in the early days of the railroads, when he challenged the steam hammer . |
| Small, Terry. The Legend of John Henry 1994. Doubleday, [32] p. : col. ill. The legendary railroad steel driver matches his strength and speed against the steam hammer. The Legend of Pecos Bill 1992. Bantam, (unpaged) : col. ill. Verse version of the tall tale cowboy's life. |
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| Dewey, Ariane. Febold Feboldson 1984. Greenwillow Books, 48 p. : col. ill. A Nebraska farmer conquers cyclones, blizzards, fog, and grasshoppers. |
| Filinger, George A. The Story of Johnny Kaw: the Kansas Pioneer Wheat Farmer Rev. ed., 1955, 1969. Manhattan, KS : Manhattan Mercury. Self-published. Out of print. Originally written for adults but full of lots of good storytelling material. |
| Garretson, Jerri. Johnny Kaw: the Pioneer Spirit of Kansas (out of print, February 2006, see Kansas Tall Tales)) 1997. Ravenstone, (32 pages) : ill. Larger-than-life Johnny Kaw creates the land of Kansas by lopping off the tops of hills, digging the riverbeds, planting wheat, and creating the pioneer trails. Garretson, Jerri. Johnny Kaw : The Pioneer Spirit of Kansas, Color Edition 2011. 2011. Ravenstone, (32 pages) : col. ill., photos. Larger-than-life Johnny Kaw creates the land of Kansas by lopping off the tops of hills, digging the riverbeds, planting wheat, and creating the pioneer trails. Includes new intenet resources and photos of Johnny Kaw's original creators. Kansas Katie - A Sunflower Tale (out of print, November 2005, see Kansas Tall Tales) 2000. Ravenstone. (48 pages) : ill. Kansas Katie makes the prairie bloom and makes Kansas the Sunflower State. Kansas Tall Tales - A Special Tenth Anniversary Anthology 2008. Ravenstone. (106 pages) : Ill Contains Johnny Kaw, Kansas Katie, Twister Twyla, and all original illustrations as well as resource and background material. Twister Twyla - The Kansas Cowgirl 2003. Ravenstone. (32 pages) : ill. As a tiny tot, Twyla loved the wind. As she grows older, she rides dust devils, and then tornadoes, in the rodeo career of the century. |
| Isaacs, Anne. Swamp Angel 1994. Dutton, (unpaged) : color ill. Tennessee tall tale giant Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation. |
| Ketteman, Helen. Heat Wave 1998. (unpaged) : color ill. It's so hot that strange tall tale happenings are afoot in Kansas. Corn popping in the fields and more. |
| Shepard, Aaron. The Legend of Slappy Hooper: an American Tall Tale 1993. Scribners, (unpaged) : col. ill. Slappy Hooper, the world's biggest, fastest, and best sign painter, gets in trouble because of his all-too-realistic signs. |
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There are many wonderful old and new tall tale collections. These are only a small selection. |
| Bird, E. J. Chuck Wagon Stew 1988. Carolrhoda, 72 p. : ill. Collection of tall tales from the Old West. Ten Tall Tales 1984. Carolrhoda, 56 p. : ill. (some col.) Ten Western tall tales. |
| Cober, Mary Elizabeth. Remarkable History of Tony Beaver, West Virginian 1953. McKay, 141 p. Stories of a great logging hero in the South. |
| Felton, Harold W., 1902- John Henry and His Hammer 1950. Knopf, 82 (3) p. : ills. Includes "A John Henry ballad" New Tall Tales of Pecos Bill 1965, c1958. Prentice-Hall, 164 p. : ill. Sergeant O'Keefe and His Mule, Balaam 1962. Dodd. Tall tales supposedly related by a Sergeant O'Keefe, who was once in charge of a weather station on the top of Pike's Peak. |
| Garretson, Jerri, 1947 - Kansas Tall Tales - A Special Tenth Anniversary Anthology 2008. Ravenstone Press, 106 pages: ill. Contains full text and illustrations of Garretson's three tales: Johnny Kaw - The Pioneer Spirit of Kansas, Kansas Katie - An Sunflower Tale, and Twister Twyla - The Kansas Cowgirl, plus resource materials, book lists, websites, and more. |
| McCormick, Dell J. Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe 1948, 1936. Caxton, 111 p. : ill. |
| Malcolmson, Anne Burnett. Mister Stormalong 1952. 136 p. Tales of the mighty seaman, Stormalong. |
| Osborne, Mary Pope. American Tall Tales 1991. Knopf, 115 p. : col. ill. Tall tales about American folk heroes such as Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan. |
| San Souci, Robert D. Cut From the Same Cloth : American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale 1993. Philomel, 140 p. : ill. Twenty stories about legendary American women from folktales, popular stories, and ballads. Larger Than Life : the Adventures of American Legendary Heroes 1991. Doubleday, 59 p. : col. ill. Four short tales about such American heroes as John Henry, Old Stormalong, Sluefoot Sue, and Paul Bunyan. |
| Shapiro, Irwin. Tall Tales of America 1958. Golden Press, 124 p. : ill. Tales of Pecos Bill, Anthony and the Mossbunker, Stormalong, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, "the Yaller Blossom o' the forest," Sam Patch, Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Joe Magarac |
| Walker, Paul Robert. Big Men, Big Country : a Collection of American Tall Tales 1993. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 79 p. : col. ill. American tall tales of characters such as Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill. |
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