Mountain Jack Tales
Title | Mountain Jack Tales PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Folklore |
ISBN | 9781887905510 |
These stories featuring the hero Jack are set in the mountains of North Carolina, but have their roots in Old World folklore.
Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns
Title | Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns PDF eBook |
Author | Orville Hicks |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781933251653 |
"Orville Hicks has enthralled audiences beyond the porches of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, for more than two decades. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns captures the voice of the master storyteller in more than twenty transcribed stories, paired with lively pencil sketches. Having grown up in a hollow, he knows the mountain setting and his clever character Jack"--Provided by publisher.
Smoky Mountain Jack Tales of Winter and Old Christmas
Title | Smoky Mountain Jack Tales of Winter and Old Christmas PDF eBook |
Author | W. Lewis Bolton |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 2015-11-21 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1514417502 |
ONCED UPON A TIME AGO, in the Smoky Mountains, there lived a feller named Jack. So begin twenty Jack Tales, based on traditional folk and fairy tales, plus an extra tale, The Legend of Stingy Jack. Nine seasonal stories are adventures with Giants, a Witch, Trolls, and Death. Bonus Tales feature a heifer hide, a bear, moonshine, golden eggs, a ball of butter, a Kings ring, and a lost ax. Smoky Mountain Jack Tales of Winter and Old Christmas These are fun performance tales for reading aloud at home or in public, for oral interpretation, or re-told in your own words. Primarily for older youth and grownups, these varied tales are for readers and storytellers who already know and love Jack and those about to make a new friend.
Mountain Jack Tales
Title | Mountain Jack Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Haley |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781597121248 |
The Jack Tales
Title | The Jack Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Chase |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780618346929 |
Presents retellings of eighteen folk tales from the mountain country of North Carolina, featuring Jack, an Americanized version of the fairy tale hero.
Jack in Two Worlds
Title | Jack in Two Worlds PDF eBook |
Author | William Bernard McCarthy |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | 342 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780807844434 |
The "Jack" known to all of us from "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in Two Worlds is a unique collection that brings together eight of these stories as transcribed from ac
Ray Hicks
Title | Ray Hicks PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Isbell |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780807849620 |
Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where