#hardcover #youngadult #space #comingofage #lies #talltales 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Hurt when her best friend suddenly moves away, Tamara cannot accept the ten-year-old whopper-telling new kid on the block, until her view of the way things are changes.

Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me

3361480b-af9f-48ea-8f02-a1315d25ef74-1

Si Robertson

Maryland

Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle

A star of the hit A&E show Duck Dynasty brings together his best tall tales, crazy exploits and quirky one-liners in a single raucous collection.

Si-Cology 1

190b56c7-5df2-4aca-b864-5fcec86fb7bb-1

#hardcover #History #TallTales #CompassPointBooks #LibraryBinding #JohnnyAppleseed #Massachusetts #Apple #Orchard #Folkhero box4
Please note: there is a $7.50 purchase minimum when buying from our shop. There is a platform fee, packaging, and travel costs. Our prices are extremely low and so please if you don’t need another book, please buy one for a friend. Thanks for understanding. 😊

Texas

Please see the description

The life story of John Chapman, whose distribution of apple seeds and trees across the Midwest made him a legend.

Johnny Appleseed

18e9322b-5c4f-4908-ade6-2afc6636faef-1

Retired library book and has some blemishes, see all pics!! 

Missouri

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Holes

ef8cc260-3adf-473c-8640-1c1792999c95-1

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Those colossal lies about "evil" giants are all just a gigantic misunderstanding.

You've heard all the stories of mean and bloodthirsty giants: David and Goliath, Jack and the Beanstalk, Gilgamesh. Imagine you found an unconscious giant on the shores of your tiny ravaged village--what would you do?

Walter the Giant Storyteller is that unlucky giant, shipwrecked by a violent storm at sea. He awakens to find himself tied down and on trial for his life. He knows he's a good giant, but that doesn't seem to matter to the mob of tiny people holding him captive and responsible for the crimes of all evil giants in history. He has to use his best storytelling skills to convince the crowd that good giants do exist--because if he doesn't, he'll become a giant of legend himself.

In this tour de force of storytelling and illustration, Mayes and O'Malley turn the giant genre on its ear.

Walter the Giant Storyteller's Giant Book of Giant Stories

b66249cd-df8b-4193-af3c-7bc06be2972c-1

Frank Berrios

Nebraska

Mater the tow truck tells race car Lightning McQueen far-fetched stories about how he used to be a rockstar, a UFO, and a drifting king.

Heavy Metal Mater and Other Tall Tales

f6f4ed70-e001-43d2-9c11-5ba183295b6a-1

#paperback #PecosBill #Legend #TallTales #ImaginationSeries #CompassPointBooks #Educational #Biography #Teacher #English #History￼ 
Box 23

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The story of the baby Pecos Bill being raised by coyotes and his eventual marriage to Slue-Foot Sue, another legend from the American Southwest.

Pecos Bill

38715846-c1e8-4651-b90a-2beaa923550b-1

Really great condition with such a unique mix of story & color 🥰 #hardcover #kids #children #marriage #relationships #talltales #ocean #juvenilefiction #fiction

Hana, the No-Cow Wife

e3ce7b81-ed49-4706-a075-7c2537c64311-1

John Claude Bemis

Oregon

Book 1 of the Clockwork Dark

What if John Henry had a son? Twelve-year-old Ray is haunted by the strangest memories of his father, whom Ray swears could speak to animals. Now an orphan, Ray jumps from a train going through the American South and falls in with a medicine show train and its stable of sideshow performers. The performers turn out to be heroes, defenders of the wild, including the son of John Henry. They are hiding the last of the mythical Swamp Sirens from an ancient evil known as the Gog. Why the Gog wants the Siren, they can’t be sure, but they know it has something to do with rebuilding a monstrous machine that John Henry gave his life destroying years before, a machine that will allow the Gog to control the will of men and spread darkness throughout the world.

The Nine Pound Hammer

742ddcd0-e863-4b21-9404-d5e0ded38e0b-1

Old but readable copy. See pics 📸

 #paperback #fiction #homeschool #paulbunyan #talltales #daveycrockett #johnnyappleseed #american #amblesideonline #homeschool

Q

Michigan

Eight exciting classic American Tall Tales! This collection includes the famed stories of Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Stormalong, Mike Fink, Davy Crockett, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Joe Magarac, with evocative illustrations by Richard M. Powers.

American Tall Tales

03247b72-f8a4-4d44-b989-cb6eb9428e5b-1

Great condition ☺️ great story ☺️ #paperback #fiction #talltales #johnhenry #kids #children #juvenilefiction #historical #learning #childrensstories

The Tall Tale of John Henry

fa6a9525-aace-4af9-af4c-dfc5848f3f5e-1

Massachusetts

Legends, Tales, Ballads and Superstitions from All Across America

Great American Folklore

#paperback #baseball #1920s #memoir #talltales #pirates #cardinals #oldtimers 

This slim paperback is in very good condition, no wear on binding or pages. There is a little wear on the spine near the top but otherwise it's in excellent condition. Published in 1991 by SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research.

Minnesota

The Hilarious and Mostly True Tales of Rabbit Maranville

Rabbit Maranville was the Joe Garagiola of Grandpa's day. or maybe he was the Jay Johnstone. In a twenty-four-year career from 1912 through 1936, Rabbit found a lot of funny situations to laugh at. No wonder. He caused most of them himself.

Few fans alive today have had the privilege of sitting down for a few beers with the Rabbit and listening to him spin his tales. But fortunately for us, a year before his death in 1954, Rabbit reached back forty years into his memory and put his sotires down on paper after the urging of his daughter and Max Kase, former sports editor of the New York Journal-American, who had employed Maranville in a public relations position. Unfortunately, Maranville did not finish his autobiography before he died. For decades the tales rested, virtually unread, until the Graber brothers, Dallas and Ralph, discovered the manuscript inconspicuously offered for sale by a memorabilia dealer and bought it rescuing it for all future fans to enjoy.

The stories give us much autobiographical material about Rabbit. But they are not an autobiography, any more than Baseball Is a Funny Game is the autobiography of Garagiola. They tell us much history. And yet they do not comprise a history, any more than Veeck as in Wreck is a history of the Cleveland Indians.

Rabbit's memory played tricks on him, not surprising to anyone who has interviewed old men reaching back into the past. Where errors were found, I have attempted to correct them. Where Rabbit's somewhat Lardneresque prose has breached some rules preached in sixth-grade English classes, I did my best to make him readable without making him slick. In short, I tried to let Rabbit be Rabbit.

To fill in the details in Rabbit's life not covered in his stories, Bob Carroll has delved into the records and penned a more scholarly account of dates, places, and names in Bob's own irreverent, even Maranvillian, style.

Run, Rabbit, Run

2340b923-9c66-44ab-8d28-1d0c7948cb81-1

Michael Ondaatje

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Fact and legend are combined in this journey into the mind and character of the notorious outlaw

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

240c39b1-be98-41f5-a1e9-bcd8b2d2779b-1

#hardcover #vintage #vintagechildrensbooks #sidfleischman #kurtwerth #talltales 

California

McBroom’s Zoo

#hardcover #disney #cars #mater #talltales #pixar #fiction 

Florida

Thunder Rose

Cute tall tale based on Davy Crockett. Used condition with some scratches, etc, and missing original jacket, but otherwise in great shape.#youngadult #juvenilefiction #davycrockett #talltales

Kentucky

Davy Crockett stops the evil Halley's Comet from destroying the world and wins the heart of Sally Sugartree in the process.

Davy Crockett Saves the World

The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; and a country ruled by horses.

Gulliver's Travels

3334265e-37e0-4048-8e2c-7cbbc829bbc5-1

Paul Bunyan

Three Tall Tales

Three stories--Mr. Yowder and the Lion Roar Capsules, Mr. Yowder and the Steamboat, and Mr. Yowder and the Giant Bull Snake--focus on one of the most colorful of the old-time traveling sign painters

Mr. Yowder, the Peripatetic Sign Painter

4c26521c-7d84-47ab-b454-c6a4205f37fa-1

Mark Twain

Elizabeth Frank

Mark Dawidziak

Mark Twain's account of his transformation into a Westerner when he joins his brother, a newly appointed federal official in Nevada.

Roughing It

37a75b86-a26d-429e-a7c3-af6025d1b60f-1

From the author of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark but published earlier in 1979, this is like short bits of folklore and terminology from A to Z. A bit less scary with great illustrations!

Save this search

Nan Marino

Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me

Si Robertson

Si-Cology 1

Bill Balcziak (Retold by); Jason Millet (Illustrator); Capstone Press Staff

Johnny Appleseed

Louis Sachar

Holes

Walter M. Mayes; Kevin O'Malley (Illustrator)

Walter the Giant Storyteller's Giant Book of Giant Stories

Frank Berrios

Heavy Metal Mater and Other Tall Tales

Bill Balcziak (Retold by); Roberta Collier-Morales (Illustrator); Compass Point Books Staff (Contribution by)

Pecos Bill

Pat Bagley; Will Terry (Illustrator)

Hana, the No-Cow Wife

John Claude Bemis

The Nine Pound Hammer

Adrien Stoutenburg

American Tall Tales

David Neufeld; Michael Hobbs (Illustrator)

The Tall Tale of John Henry

Kemp P Battle, compiler

Great American Folklore

Walter Maranville; Bob Carroll (Afterword by); Harold Seymour (Introduction by)

Run, Rabbit, Run

Michael Ondaatje

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

Sid Fleischman

McBroom’s Zoo

RH Disney Staff (Illustrator); Frank Berrios

Heavy Metal Mater and Other Tall Tales

Jerdine Nolen

Thunder Rose

Rosalyn Schanzer

Davy Crockett Saves the World

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Steven Kellogg

Paul Bunyan

Glen Rounds (Illustrator)

Mr. Yowder, the Peripatetic Sign Painter

Mark Twain; Elizabeth Frank; Mark Dawidziak

Roughing It

Alvin Schwartz

Chin Music

Adrien Stoutenburg

American Tall Tales