Why I'm an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales
Why I'm an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales

Author: Roger L. Welsch

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2016-03

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0803285914

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2017 Nebraska Book Award Nonfiction: Folklore One day Roger Welsch ventured to ask his father a delicate personal question: "Why am I an only child?" His father's answer is one of many examples of the delightful and laughter-inducing ribald tales Welsch has compiled from a lifetime of listening to and sharing the folklore of the Plains. More narrative than simple jokes, and the product of multiple retellings, these coarse tales were even delivered by such prudish sources as Welsch's stern and fearsome German great-aunts. Speaking of cucumbers and sausages in a toast to a newly married couple, the prim and proper women of Welsch's memory voice the obscene and unspeakable in stories fit for general company. Why I'm an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales is Welsch's celebration of the gentle and evocative bits of humor reflecting the personality of the people of the Plains.

Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870
Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870

Author: Kay Retzlaff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1000479285

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Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870: Bridget's Belfast examines how Irish immigrants shaped and reshaped their identity in a rural New England community. Forty percent of Irish immigrants to the United States settled in rural areas. Achieving success beyond large urban centers required distinctive ways of performing Irishness. Class, status, and gender were more significant than ethnicity. Close reading of diaries, newspapers, local histories, and public papers allows for nuanced understanding of immigrant lives amid stereotype and the nineteenth century evolution of a Scotch-Irish identity.

The Reluctant Pilgrim
The Reluctant Pilgrim

Author: Roger L. Welsch

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0803254342

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"An honest and revealing description of one skeptic's spiritual journey from his Lutheran upbringing to Native sensibilities"--

Embracing Fry Bread
Embracing Fry Bread

Author: Roger Welsch

Publisher: Bison Books

Published: 2012-12

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Welsch tells the story of his lifelong relationship with Native American culture.

Only Child
Only Child

Author: Rhiannon Navin

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1524733350

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Surviving a horrific school shooting, a six-year-old boy retreats into the world of books and art while making sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy.

Slovenly Kate and Other Stories
Slovenly Kate and Other Stories

Author: Heinrich Hoffmann

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0486490327

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Meet Slovenly Kate, Envious Tom, Tell-Tale Jenny, and other disagreeablecharacters in this comic collection ofcautionary tales. Originally published in1874 as part of the Struwwelpeter series,these stories recount the horrible buthumorous fates of naughty children.Includes a wealth of additional rhymesand fables, plus delightful illustrationsby Theodor Hosemann.Reprint of the very rare 1875 edition.96pp.

19th Century Macedonian Folktales
19th Century Macedonian Folktales

Author: Marko Cepenkov

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13:

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A selection of 66 folktales collected by Cepenkov, who dedicated his life to the collection and preservation of Macedonian folk literature, translated into English for the first time by Fay Thomev. The first title in the TMacquarie University Publications in Macedonian Literature' series.

A Mother's List of Books for Children
A Mother's List of Books for Children

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1909

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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A liste of recommended readings for children, intended for home use and arranged by age, not school grade. Included in the list are fairy tales that are free from horrible happenings. Omitted are all writings which tolerate cruelty or unkindness to animals.