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Author: Donald Davis Publisher: August House Publishers ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
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While growing up in the mountains of western North Carolina, Davis heard stories that most American children never heard--stories that came to America through Scotch-Irish immigrants about Jack, a universal figure who is found in nearly every culture by various names. Davis was a featured storyteller at SEBA last year and at ALA this summer.
Author: Donald Davis Publisher: August House Publishers ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
While growing up in the mountains of western North Carolina, Davis heard stories that most American children never heard--stories that came to America through Scotch-Irish immigrants about Jack, a universal figure who is found in nearly every culture by various names. Davis was a featured storyteller at SEBA last year and at ALA this summer.
Author: William Bernard McCarthy Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 9780807844434 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 342
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The "Jack" known to all of us from "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in Two Worlds is a unique collection that brings together eight of these stories as transcribed from ac
Author: Richard Chase Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618346905 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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The only people who can tell these stories better than Richard Chase are the folks in North Carolina and Virginia who told them to him. These stories have been handed down for generations and have been enjoyed by grownups and children alike.
Author: Orville Hicks Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781933251653 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 204
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"Orville Hicks has enthralled audiences beyond the porches of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, for more than two decades. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns captures the voice of the master storyteller in more than twenty transcribed stories, paired with lively pencil sketches. Having grown up in a hollow, he knows the mountain setting and his clever character Jack"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Robert Isbell Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 9780807849620 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 196
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Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where
Author: Betty N. Smith Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 9780813131382 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 252
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""Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old Appalachian families in which singing and storytelling were part of everyday life. Gentry took this tradition to heart, and her legacy includes ballads, songs, stories, and riddles. Smith provides a full biography of this vibrant woman and the tradition into which she was born, presenting seventy of Gentry's songs and fifteen of the ""Jack"" tales she learned from her grandfather. When Englishman Cecil Sharp.
Author: Donald Davis Publisher: august house ISBN: 9780874835007 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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A collection of thirteen Jack tales from the southern Appalachian Mountains, including "The Time Jack Told a Big Tale," "The Time Jack Cured the Doctor," and "The Time Jack Stole the Cows."
Author: Donald Davis
Author: Donald Davis
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Author: Betty N. Smith
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