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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. 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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Last updated on February 20, 2008