tall tales

Describes some of the adventures of the legendary Captain Stormalong, who weighed some four tons at the age of twelve and was known for riding a whale.

When her family ignores her on her sixth birthday, Clementine gets mad and starts stomping on people with her very strong legs and super tough feet, but a tangle with a tornado turns things around for her.

Contains ten lessons about different tall tale characters for use in third- through fifth-grade classrooms, each with a two-page reproducible tale, history notes, language arts activities, cross-curriculum teaching activities, reproducible maps, and a list of related books.

Outlaws are headed for town and Deadwood Deb is on vacation, but her twin sister, five-year-old Ordinary Audrey, just might be able to outsmart them.

Hardscrabble Tennessee farmer Clemmon Hardigree's hard luck changes when he plants seed potatoes in Cow Hollow before his fat mountain cows cause the pasture to collapse.

A collection of four short tales about such legendary American heroes as John Henry, Old Stormalong, Sluefoot Sue, and Paul Bunyan.

Presents the story of the baby Pecos Bill being raised by coyotes and his eventual marriage to Slue-Foot Sue, another legend from the American Southwest.

Presents the life story of John Henry, the African American railroad legend known as the "Steel Driving Man.".

After being separated from her parents by a hurricane on the bayou, a young girl is raised by an alligator and later must discover who she really is.

Recounts the wild adventures of Davy Crockett, including his tangles with a wrestling bear, eagles that wish to pull out his hair, and an alligator he rides up Niagara Falls.