Tales from an Inkslinger
Tales from an Inkslinger

Author: Ione Nettum Greene Woodford

Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1635050669

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In 1929, a band of gypsies invaded the North Dakota farm where five-year-old Ione Nettum lived with her family. Though shocking and scary, the encounter left behind something more precious than anything they stole: wanderlust, the desire to move, to travel, and to taste all that life has to offer. Tales from an Inkslinger: The Memoir of a Maverick, is the story of that life--a life lived both simply and on the road, and a life of romance filled with both grand adventure and simple pleasures. Looking back on the nine decades of her life, Ione picks and chooses her stories, giving us--her lucky readers--glimpses not only into her life, but into the changes the past century has held. Even now, with the Internet making the world a smaller and smaller place, her joys and experiences in life as a Wander Vogel (bird of passage), are some most readers can all only dream of matching.

Readers' Theater: Tall Tales
Readers' Theater: Tall Tales

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Publisher: Teacher Created Resources

Published: 2006-03-27

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1420630660

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Readers theater is a powerful tool for developing reading fluency. The scripts are designed for a range of reading levels. Students have opportunities to read individually, in pairs, and as a group. The scripts do not require costumes, props, or scenery.

Tall Timber Tales
Tall Timber Tales

Author: Dell J. McCormick

Publisher: Caxton Press

Published: 1948

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780870045349

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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Told on winter nights around bunkhouse stoves the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and his mighty blue ox Babe, have become part of the American myths known as tall tales. Read how Paul Bunyan digs out Puget Sound, Babe drinks the Grand Coulee river dry, and other tales that have made Paul Bunyan and Babe famous.

Tall Tale America
Tall Tale America

Author: Walter Blair

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-12-01

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 022622791X

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"Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and John Henry have all become heroes of American folklore. Some of them, like Crokett, were real, but all have become the subject of tall tales. This is a folksy history of the United States, told as if the characters were all real. This panoramic (if completely untrue) history begins with Columbus. . . . En route to its end in the 1940s (where traditional American heroes are enlisted to fight in World War II), it covers the great and small events of our national history, including the overlooked, but important ones, such as the invention of the prairie dog."—Washington Post Book World

The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan
The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan

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Publisher: Capstone Classroom

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 1434222683

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Re-tells the adventures of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe in graphic novel format.

Out of the Northwoods
Out of the Northwoods

Author: Michael Edmonds

Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society

Published: 2010-09-24

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0870204718

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Every American has heard of the lumberjack hero Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox. For 100 years his exploits filled cartoons, magazines, short stories, and children's books, and his name advertised everything from pancake breakfasts to construction supplies. By 1950 Bunyan was a ubiquitous icon of America's strength and ingenuity. Until now, no one knew where he came from—and the extent to which this mythical hero is rooted in Wisconsin. Out of the Northwoods presents the culture of nineteenth-century lumberjacks in their own words. It includes eyewitness accounts of how the first Bunyan stories were shared on frigid winter nights, around logging camp stoves, in the Wisconsin pinery. It describes where the tales began, how they moved out of the forest and into print, and why publication changed them forever. Part bibliographic mystery and part social history, Out of the Northwoods explains for the first time why we all know and love Paul Bunyan.

Myths and Hero Tales
Myths and Hero Tales

Author: Agnes Regan Perkins

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1997-11-25

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0313008108

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This one-stop cross-cultural selective guide to recent retellings of myths and hero tales for children and young adults will enable teachers and library media specialists to select comparative myths and tales from various, mostly non-European cultures. The focus is on stories from Native America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, and Oceania. The Guide contains extensively annotated entries on 189 books of retellings of myths and hero tales, both ancient and modern, from around the world published between 1985 and 1996. Represented are 1,455 stories suitable for use with young people from mid-elementary through high school. The entries, arranged alphabetically by writer, contain complete bibliographic data, age and grade levels, and evaluative annotations. Seven indexes—title, author, illustrator, culture, story type, name, and grade level—make searching easy. The story type index will enable teachers to select comparative myths and tales from different cultures on more than 50 types of myths and hero tales. Among the many myth types cited are origin of human beings and the world, comparative social customs and rituals, natural and heavenly phenomena, animal appearance and behavior, searches and quests, and tricksters. Among the hero tale types are fools and buffoons, kings and queens, warriors, monster slayers, important female figures, magicians, voyagers and adventurers, and spiritual leaders. The Guide concludes with a bibliography of retellings published earlier that have come to be considered standard works.