American Tall Tales is a must-have addition to every family's home library and is just right for sharing aloud across generations for years to come. Michael McCurdy's robust colored wood engravings recall an earlier time, perfectly capturing all the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country out of the North American wilderness. In the tradition of the original nineteenth-century storytellers, Mary Pope Osborne combines, edits, and adds her own two cents' worth - and also supplies fascinating historical headnotes. 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 "outgrin, outsnort, outrun, outlift, outsneeze, outsleep, outlie any varmint" and other uniquely American characters, together in one superb collection. Meet America's first folk heroes in these nine wildly exaggerated and downright funny stories.
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