A Tall Tale about the Dog with the Polka Dotted Tail

A Tall Tale about the Dog with the Polka Dotted Tail
Author: Ash Gilpin
Publisher: Bookbaby
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-01-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781532380525

"A Tall Tale About The Dog With The Polka Dotted Tail" is a cute and lovable story about an outcast dog, with a most unusual tail, who learns that he is perfect just the way he is.

American Tall Tales

American Tall Tales
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2013-08-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307982599

The perfect addition to every family’s home library and just right for sharing aloud, American Tall Tales introduces readers to America’s first folk heroes in nine wildly exaggerated and downright funny stories. 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. In the tradition of the original nineteenth-century storytellers, Mary Pope Osborne compiles, edits, and adds her own two cents’ worth—and also supplies fascinating historical headnotes. 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.

Tall Tales and Wee Stories

Tall Tales and Wee Stories
Author: Billy Connolly
Publisher: Two Roads
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1529361354

80TH BIRTHDAY EDITION - NOW WITH 10 NEW TALL TALES! THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday Times In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinary career. When he first started out in the late sixties, Billy played the banjo in the folk clubs of Scotland. Between songs, he would improvise a bit, telling anecdotes from the Clyde shipyard where he'd worked. In the process, he made all kinds of discoveries about what audiences found funny, from his own brilliant mimes to the power of speaking irreverently about politics or explicitly about sex. He began to understand the craft of great storytelling. Soon the songs became shorter and the monologues longer, and Billy quickly became recognised as one of the most exciting comedians of his generation. Tall Tales and Wee Stories brings together the very best of Billy's storytelling for the first time and includes his most famous routines including, The Last Supper, Jojoba Shampoo, Incontinence Pants and Shouting at Wildebeest. With an introduction and original illustrations by Billy throughout, it is an inspirational, energetic and riotously funny read, and a fitting celebration of our greatest ever comedian.

American Tall Tales

American Tall Tales
Author: Adrien Stoutenburg
Publisher: Puffin Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1976-10-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780140309287

Eight exciting classic American Tall Tales! This collection includes the famed stories of Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Stormalong, Mike Fink, Davy Crockett, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Joe Magarac, with evocative illustrations by Richard M. Powers.

Short Stories and Tall Tales

Short Stories and Tall Tales
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Courage Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781561383238

Presents more than twenty short stories by nineteenth-century American author Mark Twain--including "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "How to Tell a Story"--And an essay on the author by Charles Neider.

The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan

The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan
Author: Martin Powell
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2010
Genre: Bunyan, Paul (Legendary character)
ISBN: 143421897X

A graphic novel retelling of the legend of Paul Bunyan and his pet, Babe the Blue Ox.

Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx
Author: Groucho Marx
Publisher:
Total Pages: 167
Release: 1996-09-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780571198986

This collection of Groucho's most side-achingly funny pieces is a must for any Groucho fan and for all who love to laugh. Groucho was a comic genius who conquered stage, film, radio, and television--but he was also a gifted writer of these short pieces, which appeared in the New York Times, the Saturday Evening Post and Variety, among others.

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
Author: Mary Ann Hoberman
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780606266840

Designed with budding readers in mind, each of these tales starring familiar nursery rhyme characters is set in three columns with color-coded type as a script for two voices to read separately and together. By the creators of You Read to Me,

Selected Writings

Selected Writings
Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780872202184

Featuring the works from Marx's enormous corpus, this title covers Marx's development from the Hegelian idealism of his youth to the mature socialism of his later works. It includes writings from Marx's early philosophical works, and the central writings on historical materialism.

Knucklehead

Knucklehead
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 067001138X

How did Jon Scieszka get so funny, anyway? Growing up as one of six brothers was a good start, but that was just the beginning. Throw in Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, jokes told at family dinner, and the result is Knucklehead. Part memoir, part scrapbook, this hilarious trip down memory lane provides a unique glimpse into the formation of a creative mind and a free spirit. Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.