American Tall Tales

  • American Tall Tales
    American Tall Tales
    By Mary Pope Osborne

    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 ...

  • American Tall Tales
    American Tall Tales
    By Mary Pope Osborne

    But the baby's strangest feature was his big curly black beard. It was so big and bushy that every morning his poor mother had to comb it with a pine tree. Except for that beard, the big baby wasn't much trouble to anybody until he was ...

  • American Tall Tales
    American Tall Tales
    By Adrien Stoutenburg

    Features eight American folk heroes: Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Stormalong, Mike Fink, Davy Crockett, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Joe Magarac. Here are the most robust characters in American legend.

  • American Tall Tales
    American Tall Tales
    By Adrien Stoutenburg

    Here are the most robust characters in American legend. Told by a poet with a poet's ear for the impact of words, these American mavericks walk and talk accross the...

  • American Tall Tales
    American Tall Tales
    By Jim Weiss

    Listen to the Jim Weiss stories, read along to improve fluency, vocabulary, and grammar, and then speak great words and sentences out loud by practicing and performing the short, accessible dramatic versions of Jim’s performances ...

  • American Tall Tales
    By Adrien Stoutenburg

    Here are the most robust characters in American legend.

  • American Tall Tales
    By Aen Stoutenburg

    American Tall Tales