Books with author Donald Davis

Grandma's house was a magical place and Donald Davis brings the magic back in vibrant detail. Even if Grandpa did live there, it was always Grandma's house. In this recording, Davis makes it possible for each of us to go back to Grandma's kitchen, her clutter room, living room, and to that immeasurable bed in which we burrowed so happily. The antics with the cousins, the imaginative games that went awry, the animals and the house itself all come back to the listener as Davis paints the picture ....

The home theater will never replace the drive-in theater in America's imaginary landscape. Donald Davis recalls a summer working under the lax supervision of Daff-Knee Garlic, owner and operator of the Sulpher Springs Big-Screen Drive-In Theater in rural North Carolina in the early 1960s. Davis recalls his duties at the concession stand, catching slip-ins, and patrolling the back rows. But the story culminates on Labor Day when the last movie, The Guns of Navarrone, is almost over. Davis ....

Rainy Weather, the story of the foxhound who amazed the saltiest of North Carolina's fox hunters and won their hearts in the bargain is one of Donald Davis's best-loved tall tales, and one of his funniest. The recording also includes two stories celebrating the wit of Davis's Uncle Frank: Uncle Frank Learns to Speak Polish and Uncle Frank Cleans up the Post Office.

Beginning with some of the earliest he heard as a lap-child, Donald Davis recounts Little Red Hen, Jack and Jill, and The House that Jack Built, a Walking Game. Also includes Davis's own retelling of Jack and the Animals, which is published as a picture book in our August House LittleFolk line. Continuing in a traditional theme, the recording features stories about Jack and a narrative on making molasses with Grandmother that leads into the final story, The Lady in a Syrup Can. Grandma ....