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STORYTELLING BIBLIOGRAPHY

Janice M. Del Negro, PhD

Tall Tales

Andreasen, Dan. The Giant of Seville. Abrams, 2007. ISBN 0-8109-0988-X and ISBN 9780810909885. [North American] Calhoun, Mary. Jack and the Whoopee Wind. Illus. by Dick Gackenbach. Morrow, 1987. ISBN 0-688-06137-0 and ISBN 9780688061371. [North American]
Doucet, Sharon Arms. Alligator Sue. Illus. by Anne Wilsdorf. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. ISBN 0-3743-0218-9 and ISBN 9780374302184. [North American]
Emberley, Barbara. The Story of Paul Bunyan. Illus. by Ed Emberley. Simon & Schuster, 1994. ISBN 0-671-88557-X and ISBN 9780671885571. [North American]
Fox, Frank G. Jean Lafitte and The Big Ol’ Whale. Illus. by Scott Cook. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. ISBN 0-3743-3669-5 and ISBN 9780374336691. [North American]
Glass, Andrew, adapter and illustrator. Mountain Men: True Grit and Tall Tales. Doubleday, 2001. ISBN 0-3853-2555-X and ISBN 9780385325554. [North American] Griffin, Kitty, and Kathy Combs. The Foot-Stomping Adventures of Clementine Sweet. Illus. by Mike Wohnoutka. Clarion, 2004. ISBN 0-6182-4746-7 and ISBN 9780618247462. [North American]
Gruber, Penelope. Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Whale. Illus. by Otis Frampton. North Mankato, Minnesota: Stone Arch Books, 2019. ISBN: 9781496578426 and 1496578422 [North American] Hoberman, Mary Ann. Very Short Tall Tales to Read Together. Illus. by Michael Emberly. Little, Brown, 2019. [North American]
Hopkinson, Deborah. Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains. Illus. by Nancy Carpenter. Atheneum, 2004. ISBN 0-6898-4769-6 and ISBN 9780689847691. [North American]
Hurston, Zora Neale. Lies and Other Tall Tales. Christopher Myers, adapter and illustrator. HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 0-0600-0655-2 and ISBN 9780060006556. [North American]
Isaacs, Anne. Pancakes for Supper! Illus. by Mark Teague. Scholastic, 2006. ISBN 0-4396-4483-6 and ISBN 9780439644839. [North American]
———. Swamp Angel. Illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky. Dutton, 1994. ISBN 0-525-45271-0 and ISBN 9780525452713. [North American]
Johnson, Paul Brett. Fearless Jack. Illus. by Paul Brett Johnson. Margaret K. McElderry, 2001. ISBN 1-4169-6833-4 and ISBN 9781416968337. [North American/Appalachian]
Kellogg, Steven, reteller and illustrator. Paul Bunyan. Morrow, 1992. ISBN 0-688-03849-2 and ISBN 9780688038496. [North American]
———. Pecos Bill. Morrow, 1986. ISBN 0-688-05871-X and ISBN 9780688058715. [North American]
Kesey, Ken. Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear. Illus. by Barry Moser. Viking, 1990. ISBN 0-670-81136-X and ISBN. [North American] Kimmel, Eric A. The Great Texas Hamster Drive: An Original Tall Tale. Illus. by Bruce Whatley. Marshall Cavendish, 2007. ISBN 0-7614-5357-1 and ISBN 9780761453574. [North American]
Krensky, Stephen. Calamity Jane. Illus. by Lisa Carlson. Millbrook, 2007. ISBN 0-8225-6480-7 and ISBN 9780822564805. [North American]
———. Paul Bunyan. Illus. by Craig Orback. Millbrook, 2007. ISBN 1-5750-5888-X and ISBN 9781575058887. [North American]
———. Pecos Bill. Illus. by Paul Tong. Millbrook, 2007. ISBN 0-8225-6475-0 and ISBN 9780822564751. [North American]
———. Shooting for the Moon: The Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley. Illus. by Bernie Fuchs. Melanie Kroupa Books, 2001. ISBN 0-3743-6843-0 and ISBN 9780374368432. [North American]
Lyons, Mary E. Roy Makes a Car. Based on a story collected by Zora Neale Hurston. Illus. by Terry Widener. Atheneum, 2005. ISBN 0-6898-4640-1 and ISBN 9780689846403. [North American]
McKissack, Patricia C. Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters. Illus. by André Carrilho. Schwartz & Wade, 2007. ISBN 0-3758-3619-5 and ISBN 9780375836190. [North American]
Mora, Pat. Dona Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart. Illus. by Raul Colón. Knopf, 2005. ISBN 0-3758-2337-9 and ISBN 9780375823374. [Hispanic]
Nolen, Jerdine. Big Jabe. Illus. by Kadir Nelson. Amistad, 2003. ISBN 0-0605-4061-3 and ISBN 9780060540616. [African American]
———. Thunder Rose. Illus. by Kadir Nelson. Silver Whistle/Harcourt, 2003. ISBN 0-1521-6472-3 and ISBN 9780152164720. [African American]
Osborne, Mary Pope, reteller. American Tall Tales. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Knopf, 1991. ISBN 0-679-80089-1 and ISBN 9780679800897. [North American] ———. New York’s Bravest. Paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. Knopf, 2002. ISBN 0-3758-3841-4 and ISBN 9780375838415. [North American]
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Peggony Po: A Whale of a Tale. Illus. by Brian Pinkney. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, 2006. ISBN 0-7868-1958-8 and ISBN 9780786819584. [African American]
Rosenberg, Madelyn. Cyclops of Central Park. Ills. by Victoria Tentler-Krylov. Penguin, 2020. ISBN 9780525514701. Root, Phyllis. Aunt Nancy and the Bothersome Visitors. Illus. by David Parkins. Walker, 2008. ISBN 1-4063-1058-1 and ISBN 9781406310580. [North American]
San Souci, Robert D. Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale. Illus. by Brian Pinkney. Putnam, 1993. ISBN 0-399-21987-0 and ISBN 9780399219870. [North American]
Shepard, Aaron. Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria. Illus. by David Wisniewski. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 2000. ISBN 0-6881-3783-0 and ISBN 9780688137830. [Nigerian]
Thomassie, Tynie. Feliciana Feydra Le Roux: A Cajun Tall Tale. Illus. by Cat Bowman Smith. Little, Brown, 1995. ISBN 0-316-84125-0 and ISBN 9780316841252. [North American]
Walker, Robert Paul. Big Men, Big Country: A Collection of American Tall Tales. Illus. by James Bernardin. Sandpiper, 2000. ISBN 0-1520-2625-8 and ISBN 9780152026257. [North American]
Wallace, Ian. The True Story of Trapper Jack’s Left Big Toe. Roaring Brook, 2002. ISBN 0-7613-1493-8 and ISBN 9780761314936. [North American]
Wheeler, Lisa. Avalanche Annie: A Not-So-Tall Tale. Illus. by Kurt Cyrus. Harcourt, 2003. ISBN 0-7567-8536-7 and ISBN 9780756785369. [North American]
Willey, Margaret. Clever Beatrice: An Upper Peninsula Conte. Illus. by Heather Solomon. Atheneum, 2001. ISBN 0-6898-7068-X and ISBN 9780689870682. [North American]
Wooldridge, Connie Nordheim. The Legend of Strap Buckner: A Texas Tale. Illus. by Andrew Glass. Holiday House, 2001. ISBN 0-8234-1536-8 and ISBN 9780823415366. [North American] Wright, Catherine. Steamboat Annie and the Thousand-Pound Catfish. Illus. by Howard Fine. Philomel Books, 2001. ISBN 0-3992-3331-8 and ISBN 9780399233319. [North American]
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