tall tales

Legendary cowboy Pecos Bill invents the ten-gallon hat after trying several different and unusual ways to protect his head from the hot Texas sun.

Relates some of the exploits of Paul Bunyan, a lumberjack said to be taller than the trees whose pet was a blue ox named Babe.

Retells the life of the legendary steel driver of early railroad days who challenged the steam hammer to a steel-driving contest.

A rhyming story about a girl named Prickly Rose, who follows her ten-foot tall sister Sitka north, riding orcas, and reshaping Alaska's coasts and mountains.

Peggony-Po, carved out of wood by his father, a one-legged whaler, determines to catch the huge whale that ate his father?s leg.

"When a classmate wins a contest, Brad brags about how he won an even bigger contest. When another student breaks his arm, Brad blabs about how he broke BOTH his arms AND his legs. Children and adults will get a real kick out of Brad's tall tales as he learns the difference between being a "pull-upper" and a "one-upper!"--Provided by Publisher.

When the moon falls into Farmer Klank's river, every attempt to get it back into place fails, until Paul Bunyan is called.

When a strange creature enters a hungry trapper's cabin, the trapper cuts off its tail and eats it but the creature returns, determined to retrieve its appendage.

Relates some of the exploits of Pecos Bill, the extraordinary Texas cowboy who was raised by coyotes, rode a mountain lion, used a rattle snake as a rope, and married the fearless Slue-Foot Sue.

A boy who likes to wear his favorite clothes constantly, no matter what, leaves his smelly, black-and-white sneakers outside his tent during a campout and witnesses their effect on a passing skunk.