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Author: Robin Moore Publisher: ISBN: 9781093507355 Category : Languages : en Pages : 82
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Follow Storyteller Robin Moore and his grandfather as he remembers six barely-believable tales from his boyhood in the Pennsylvania Mountains. In this humorous collection, they discover a toothless rattlesnake, an eagle who thinks he is a chicken and, of course, a cherry tree buck. For ages 8 and Up. Parents: This is a wonderful read-aloud collection which will stimulate kids' imaginations while reminding them of the wonders of the natural world.From the Introduction: I learned about the woods from my grandfather.From the time I was old enough to hold a fishing pole, my grandfather and I spent every spare moment outdoors, enjoying whatever the wind and weather had to offer.In those days, our part of Pennsylvania was still pretty wild. We could see black bear and wild turkey from the back porch. We could pick blueberries and collect mushrooms. We could drink right out of the streams and walk through the hills all day without seeing another person.Sometimes we would wander off the familiar trails and plunge into the deepest, tangliest art of the thicket, just to see what was there. Sometimes we would sit quietly on the banks of a stream or at the edge of a meadow, waiting with watchful eyes. And sometimes, when we were very lucky, we would get a glimpse of the natural world that remains hidden to most people.Some of the things we saw were, literally, incredible. Whenever we tried to tell our family or friends, they'd accuse us of pulling their legs. After a while we just kept quiet.It's been nearly forty years since my grandfather died, and I think it's time to tell about our adventures. I once asked him, "What's the secret to telling a good story?"He grinned. "No secret to it at all. Just start with the facts and go on from there ...."
Author: Robin Moore Publisher: ISBN: 9781093507355 Category : Languages : en Pages : 82
Book Description
Follow Storyteller Robin Moore and his grandfather as he remembers six barely-believable tales from his boyhood in the Pennsylvania Mountains. In this humorous collection, they discover a toothless rattlesnake, an eagle who thinks he is a chicken and, of course, a cherry tree buck. For ages 8 and Up. Parents: This is a wonderful read-aloud collection which will stimulate kids' imaginations while reminding them of the wonders of the natural world.From the Introduction: I learned about the woods from my grandfather.From the time I was old enough to hold a fishing pole, my grandfather and I spent every spare moment outdoors, enjoying whatever the wind and weather had to offer.In those days, our part of Pennsylvania was still pretty wild. We could see black bear and wild turkey from the back porch. We could pick blueberries and collect mushrooms. We could drink right out of the streams and walk through the hills all day without seeing another person.Sometimes we would wander off the familiar trails and plunge into the deepest, tangliest art of the thicket, just to see what was there. Sometimes we would sit quietly on the banks of a stream or at the edge of a meadow, waiting with watchful eyes. And sometimes, when we were very lucky, we would get a glimpse of the natural world that remains hidden to most people.Some of the things we saw were, literally, incredible. Whenever we tried to tell our family or friends, they'd accuse us of pulling their legs. After a while we just kept quiet.It's been nearly forty years since my grandfather died, and I think it's time to tell about our adventures. I once asked him, "What's the secret to telling a good story?"He grinned. "No secret to it at all. Just start with the facts and go on from there ...."
Author: Robin Moore Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 120
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A series of stories describes the tall tale adventures of a boy and his grandfather with some of the creatures living near their home in central Pennsylvania.
Author: Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786460199 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 357
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This comprehensive bibliography includes books written about or set in Appalachia from the 18th century to the present. Titles represent the entire region as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission, including portions of 13 states stretching from southern New York to northern Mississippi. The bibliography is arranged in alphabetical order by author, and each title is accompanied by an annotation, most of which include composite reviews and critical analyses of the work. All classic genres of children's literature are represented.
Author: Stephen Crane Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 51
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A collection of three short novellas by the famous writer Stephen Crane, 'The Monster and Other Stories' was first published in the year 1899. These stories are written for children and has elements of ghosts, monsters and horror.
Author: Robin Moore Publisher: ISBN: 9781729069714 Category : Languages : en Pages : 106
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Follow Author and Storyteller Robin Moore back to his boyhood home in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, where he and his grandfather spent their days on the thickly-forested woods, exploring the beauty and mystery of the natural world.From the Introduction: The first really valuable thing I lost in the woods was a Barlow pocket knife. It was a knife my grandfather had given me for my eighth birthday. As he handed it to me, he said, "I guess you're old enough to have this now." But I wasn't. I had the knife less than a week before I lost it. I'll never know for sure how it got lost. One moment I had it, then it was gone. As soon as I knew the knife was missing, I wondered if I really was old enough to have such a fine possession. Fighting back tears of frustration, I remember hunting for that knife, going down on my hands and knees and searching through the leaves in the woods near our house. But I never found it. It's probably still laying out there somewhere, its bone handle dulled by the weather, its blade rusted the color of leaves in Autumn. Since then, I have lost many things in the woods: hats and gloves, wrist watches, flashlights and compasses. But probably the thing I miss the most is the loss of the woods themselves. When I was a boy, growing up in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, I lived right across the road from my grandfather's house, just outside the town of Roopsburg. In those days, the woods and fields of the Appalachian foothills were still free and wild. And my grandfather and I spent as much time as we could out and away from civilization, roaming through the wild world. But nowadays, many of the places where I dreamed and played aren't wild anymore. They have been chopped up into neat yards with large houses, surrounded by wooden fences enclosing plastic swing sets. Even worse, some of our favorite places have been taken by highways and parking lots and shopping malls. The wildness of those places has been lost, at least for the next hundred years or so, until the woods comes back to reclaim them. But, as every storyteller knows, nothing is really lost as long as it lingers in the imagination. So come along with me now, and I'll take you back to some of my favorite wild spots and tell you a little about the sad and wonderful things that happened there...Author Biography: Robin Moore is an award-winning author and storyteller who has written more than a dozen books about the History and Folklore of the Pennsylvania Mountains, where his family has lived for more than 200 years. He has given more than 5,000 programs and workshops at schools. libraries, museums and festivals and has told stories to more than a million people. He served as a combat soldier in Vietnam, earned a Journalism Degree from Pennsylvania State University and worked as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor before beginning his career as a children's book author and traveling storyteller in 1981. He was named Storyteller of the Year and Author of the Year by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association. He holds a Master's Degree in Oral Traditions and is Program Coordinator for the Writing and Oral Traditions Program at The Graduate Institute. In addition to being published by HarperCollins, Random House and Simon & Schuster, he is owner of Groundhog Press, a small independent publishing house which produces books and recordings celebrating the oral tradition.
Author: Sarah Blackman Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 1573661740 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 223
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The eleven stories and one novella of Mother Box, and Other Tales bring together everyday reality and something that is dramatically not in compelling narratives of new possibilities. In language that is both barb and bauble, bitter and unbearably sweet, Sarah Blackman spins the threads of stories where everything is probable and nothing is constant. The stories in Mother Box, and Other Tales occur in an in-between world of outlandish possibility that has become irrefutable reality: a woman gives birth to seven babies and realizes at one of their weddings that they were foxes all along; a girl with irritating social quirks has been raised literally by cardboard boxes; a young woman throws a dinner party only to have her elaborate dessert upstaged by one of the guests who, as it turns out, is the moon. Love between mothers and children is a puzzling thrum that sounds at the very edge of hearing; a muted pulse that, nevertheless, beats and beats and beats. In these tales, the prosaic details of everyday life—a half-eaten sandwich, an unopened pack of letters on a table—take on fevered significance as the characters blunder into revelations that occlude even as they unfold.
Author: Stephen Crane Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199552541 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
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This edition explores Crane's work from a fresh critical perspective and introduces new research on the imaginative relationship between Crane's novel and the Civil War. (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso).
Author: Bernice E. Cullinan Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 616
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With a slender design and appealing art, Cullinan and Galda present a thought provoking discussion on how children can read to respond, read to learn, and read to enjoy. This text provides evaluation criteria for selecting superior children's books, rather than listing thousands of titles and synopses. Booklists direct readers to quality literature, and extended discussions of selected titles demonstrate the selection criteria. Multicultural literature is discussed throughout the text, with a separate chapter on more specific multicultural issues. Numerous teaching ideas, many of which are contributed by classroom teachers, provide practical applications. This is a book for teachers, stressing the use of good books in a literature based curriculum.
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