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Best-loved stories told at the National Storytelling Festival / selected by the National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling.

Summary:

A collection of thirty-seven traditional and adapted folk and fairy tales, original tales, true narratives, and ghost stories, told at the annual National Storytelling Festival from 1973 to 1990. Includes information about the storytellers, the tales, and the background of the festival.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1879991004
  • ISBN: 9781879991002
  • ISBN: 1879991012
  • ISBN: 9781879991019
  • Physical Description: 223 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 20th anniversary edition.
  • Publisher: Jonesborough, Tennessee : National Storytelling Press, [1991]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Marie Jolie / J. J. Reneaux -- Carna and the boots of seven strides / Bill Harley -- The day the cow ate my britches / Ray Hicks -- Possum, turtle, and the wolves / Doug Elliott -- Black hair / Brenda Wong Aoki -- The pinch-hitter / Michael Parent -- Morgan and the pot o'brains / Milbre Burch -- The innkeeper's wise daughter / Peninnah Schram -- Willie the bug-man / Susan Klein -- A fisherman and his wife / Carol L. Birch -- The two sons / Alice McGill -- Jack and the silver keys / Duncan Williamson -- C-R-A-Z-Y / Donald Davis -- The sword of wood / Doug Lipman -- The girl and the ghost / Laura Simms -- No news / The Folktellers -- The wise shoemaker of Studena / Syd Lieberman.
My story, your story, our story--history / an introduction by Jane Yolen -- The wish-ring / Martha Holloway -- The walkin' catfish / Doc McConnell -- The hole that will not stay filled / Kathryn Windham -- Could this be paradise? / Steve Sanfield -- The bee, the harp, the mouse, and the bumclock / Gwenda LedBetter -- A friend of my father / Maggi Kerry Peirce -- Orange cheeks / Jay O'Callahan -- The seal skin / Lynn Rubright -- Wicked John and the devil / Jackie Torrence -- Lincoln's famous beard / Lucille and Bren Breneman -- A bell for Shorty / Jim May -- The woodcutter's story / Nancy Schimmel -- How Caedmon got his hymn / Robert P. Creed -- Cindy Ellie / Mary Carter Smith -- Cap o'rushes / Ellin Greene -- The legend of Charley Parkhurst / Hector Lee -- One day, one night / Joe Hayes -- Flowers and freckle cream / Elizabeth Ellis -- The princess and the dove / Mary Hamilton -- The first motorcycle in Black Mountain / David Holt
Subject:
National Storytelling Festival > Juvenile literature.
National Storytelling Festival.
Tales > United States.
Folklore > Juvenile literature.
Storytelling > Juvenile literature.
Genre:
Fiction.

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5050 . ‡aMy story, your story, our story--history / an introduction by Jane Yolen -- The wish-ring / Martha Holloway -- The walkin' catfish / Doc McConnell -- The hole that will not stay filled / Kathryn Windham -- Could this be paradise? / Steve Sanfield -- The bee, the harp, the mouse, and the bumclock / Gwenda LedBetter -- A friend of my father / Maggi Kerry Peirce -- Orange cheeks / Jay O'Callahan -- The seal skin / Lynn Rubright -- Wicked John and the devil / Jackie Torrence -- Lincoln's famous beard / Lucille and Bren Breneman -- A bell for Shorty / Jim May -- The woodcutter's story / Nancy Schimmel -- How Caedmon got his hymn / Robert P. Creed -- Cindy Ellie / Mary Carter Smith -- Cap o'rushes / Ellin Greene -- The legend of Charley Parkhurst / Hector Lee -- One day, one night / Joe Hayes -- Flowers and freckle cream / Elizabeth Ellis -- The princess and the dove / Mary Hamilton -- The first motorcycle in Black Mountain / David Holt
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