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Big men, big country : a collection of American tall tales

1993
A collection of American tall tales featuring such legendary characters as Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, and Pecos Bill.

Paul Bunyan and Babe the blue ox

1984
Tall tales of the mighty logger, including his birth and his adventures in a logging camp, in the South Dakota forests, and among the California redwoods.

Levi Strauss gets a bright idea

a fairly fabricated story of a pair of pants
2011
Retells, in tall-tale fashion, how Levi Strauss went to California during the Gold Rush, saw the need for a sturdier kind of trouser, and invented jeans.

Library Lil

1997
A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well.

Cut from the same cloth

American women of myth, legend, and tall tale
1993
A collection of twenty stories about legendary American women, drawn from folktales, popular stories, and ballads.

Granite baby

2005
Five talented New Hampshire sisters try to care for a baby that one of them has carved out of granite.

Thunder Rose

2007
Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building metal structures, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.

Clever Beatrice

an Upper Peninsula conte
2001
A small, but clever young girl outwits a rich giant and wins all his gold.

Harvey Potter's balloon farm

1994
A child ventures out in the middle of the night to see how Harvey Potter grows his wonderful balloons.

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