Pecos Bill Rides a Tornado
Author: Wyatt Blassingame
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780811640381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fabled hero of cattle country tames a tornado and turns it into an obedient breeze.
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American Tall Tales
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2013-08-28
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0307982599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe perfect addition to every family’s home library and just right for sharing aloud, American Tall Tales introduces readers to America’s first folk heroes in nine wildly exaggerated and downright funny stories. Here are Paul Bunyan, that king-sized lumberjack who could fell “ten white pines with a single swing”; John Henry, with his mighty hammer; Mose, old New York’s biggest, bravest fireman; Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, who could “outgrin, outsnort, outrun, outlift, outsneeze, outsleep, outlie any varmint”; and other uniquely American characters, together in one superb collection. In the tradition of the original nineteenth-century storytellers, Mary Pope Osborne compiles, edits, and adds her own two cents’ worth—and also supplies fascinating historical headnotes. Michael McCurdy’s robust colored wood engravings recall an earlier time, perfectly capturing all the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country out of the North American wilderness.
Pecos Bill
Author: Steven Kellogg
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1992-09-18
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0688099246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The anecdotes associated with Texas's fabled cowboy hero burst from the pages in rapid succession, Kellogg's robust illustrations enlarging and enriching the energetic text."--School Library Journal. "A read-aloud treat....One of Kellogg's best."--Booklist.
Pecos Bill
Author: Stephen Krensky
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Published: 2006-08-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0822570394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFolks might think Pecos Bill was nothing but trouble. After all, he was raised by coyotes in the Wild West. And he made friends with a gang of outlaws. But Bill had a heart of gold. All he wanted was to be the best cowboy. So Bill learned to ride a mountain lion and lasso a tornado. He found himself a dynamite-eating horse. Then he met his match in a girl named Sue. Author Stephen Krensky and illustrator Paul Tong capture Pecos Bill’s spirit in this fast-paced tale.
Pecos Bill
Author: James Cloyd Bowman
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1590172248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelates some of the legends of Pecos Bill, from the moment he bounced out of his family's covered wagon to the day his long-lost brother appears and explains that Bill is not like the coyotes that have raised him.
The Legend of Pecos Bill
Author:
Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780553075830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRetells in verse the tale of the extraordinary cowboy who was raised by coyotes, married Sluefoot Sue, and rode the wild rapscallion mustang stallion named Widowmaker.
Tall Tales of America
Author: Irwin Shapiro
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2018-12-01
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1789124832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wonderful book is a collection of nine tall tales from America by renowned children’s author Irwin Shapiro: Pecos Bill, Anthony and the Mossbunker, Old Stormalong, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, the Yaller Blossom o’ the Forest, Sam Patch’s Last Leap, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Joe Magarac the Steel Man. Illustrated throughout by Al Schmidt.
Lady Long Rider
Author: Bernice Ende
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Published: 2018-06-27
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1560377453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRiding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. Since swinging her leg over the saddle for that first long ride in 2005 (at the age of 50), Ende has logged more than 29,000 miles in the saddle, crisscrossing North America on horseback - alone. More than once she has traversed the Great Plains, the Southwest deserts, the Cascade Range, and the Rocky Mountains. Along the way, she discovered a sense of community and love of place that unites people wherever they live. From 2014-2016, she was the first person to ride coast to coast and back again in one trek, winning acclaim from the international Long Riders' Guild and awe from the people she met along the way. Bernice Ende's memoirs are illuminated by accompanying maps of her routes and photos from her journeys, capturing the instant friends she meets along the way, and her ongoing encounters with harsh weather, wildlife, hard work, mosquitoes, tricky route-finding, and the occasional worn out horseshoe. Ende reveals her inner struggles and triumphs - testing the limits of physical and mental stamina, coping with inescapable solitude, and the rewards of living life her own way, as she says, "in her own skin." Saddle up and come along for the journey of a lifetime.
Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg
Author: Lori Mortensen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-05-14
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 0547975899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCowpoke Clyde’s house was completely clean—he’d even shooed off the horseflies: “Then right behind his cookin’ pot, / he spied one thing he’d plumb forgot: / ol’ Dawg, his faithful, snorin’ friend, / all caked with mud from end to end.” Needless to say, Dawg wakes up and runs. The chase that follows—with page-turn surprises—makes for a hilarious shaggy-dog story involving fleas, a hog, bribery, cats, deception, and a mule. The rhyming stanzas are pitch-perfect, Texas-style, and plumb near cry out to be read aloud. Austin’s expressive acrylic and colored-pencil caricatures of Cowpoke Clyde and his menagerie are priceless. A storytime shoo-in!
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett
Author: Steven Kellogg
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1995-09-27
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 0688140424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the day she is born this amazing baby proudly announces she can out-talk, out-grin, out-scream, out-swim, and out-run any baby in Kentucky. Within a few years Sally is off to the frontier, where she stuns a hungry grizzly bear, makes a lasso out of six rattlesnakes, and is more than a match for the mighty Mike Fink. And when Sally Ann rescues Davy Crockett from a pair of ferocious eagles, even her hornet's-nest bonnet and skunk perfume don't stop him from proposing marriage. You won't find Sally Ann in any history book, but that hasn't kept her from becoming an authentic American frontier legend and the unforgettable heroine of Steven Kellogg's most delightfully rip-roaring tall tale.
