Mountain Jack Tales
Mountain Jack Tales

Author: Gail E. Haley

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-03-29

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781511515511

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Jack is the universal folk hero and adventurer. Tales of Jack's adventures are as timeless as bedrock but as fresh as dawn in the Appalachian Mountains. Whether besting ogres, outsmarting flatland card sharps, wrestling with ornery witches, or even taking on Old Man Death himself, the plainspoken hero's common sense, goodness and hill-country humor help him come out on top every time. "In a lucid, vibrant voice, Caldecott Medalist Haley recounts stories that originate in the rugged North Carolina Mountain country ... Haley's use of metaphor, hyperbole and dialect captures the playful spirit of mountain lore. Her emotive, elaborate wood engravings, as well as her afterwords about the stories, the art and language itself, enrich this boyant anthology." -Publishers Weekly Haley's "spirited retellings are salted with backwoods language ... and illustrated with wood engravings that are full of energy, comedy and magical creatures." -Kirkus Reviews

Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns
Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns

Author: Orville Hicks

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781933251653

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"Orville Hicks has enthralled audiences beyond the porches of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, for more than two decades. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns captures the voice of the master storyteller in more than twenty transcribed stories, paired with lively pencil sketches. Having grown up in a hollow, he knows the mountain setting and his clever character Jack"--Provided by publisher.

Ray Hicks
Ray Hicks

Author: Robert Isbell

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780807849620

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Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where

Jack and the Animals
Jack and the Animals

Author: Donald Davis

Publisher: august house

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780874834130

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An Appalachian version of the traditional tale in which a boy and five elderly animals find their fortune in a robbers' den.

Grandfather Tales
Grandfather Tales

Author: Richard Chase

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780618346905

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The only people who can tell these stories better than Richard Chase are the folks in North Carolina and Virginia who told them to him. These stories have been handed down for generations and have been enjoyed by grownups and children alike.

Southern Jack Tales
Southern Jack Tales

Author: Donald Davis

Publisher: august house

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780874835007

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A collection of thirteen Jack tales from the southern Appalachian Mountains, including "The Time Jack Told a Big Tale," "The Time Jack Cured the Doctor," and "The Time Jack Stole the Cows."

Jack in Two Worlds
Jack in Two Worlds

Author: William Bernard McCarthy

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780807844434

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The "Jack" known to all of us from "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in Two Worlds is a unique collection that brings together eight of these stories as transcribed from ac

When I Was Young in the Mountains
When I Was Young in the Mountains

Author: Cynthia Rylant

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 0140548750

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Caldecott Honor Book! "An evocative remembrance of the simple pleasures in country living; splashing in the swimming hole, taking baths in the kitchen, sharing family times, each is eloquently portrayed here in both the misty-hued scenes and in the poetic text." -Association for Childhood Education International

Smoky Mountain Jack Tales of Winter and Old Christmas
Smoky Mountain Jack Tales of Winter and Old Christmas

Author: W. Lewis Bolton

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015-11-21

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1514417502

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ONCED UPON A TIME AGO, in the Smoky Mountains, there lived a feller named Jack. So begin twenty Jack Tales, based on traditional folk and fairy tales, plus an extra tale, The Legend of Stingy Jack. Nine seasonal stories are adventures with Giants, a Witch, Trolls, and Death. Bonus Tales feature a heifer hide, a bear, moonshine, golden eggs, a ball of butter, a Kings ring, and a lost ax. Smoky Mountain Jack Tales of Winter and Old Christmas These are fun performance tales for reading aloud at home or in public, for oral interpretation, or re-told in your own words. Primarily for older youth and grownups, these varied tales are for readers and storytellers who already know and love Jack and those about to make a new friend.