Books with author Tony Palazzo

Welcome to the world of the American tall tale!A long out-of-print treasure returns! This loving and vividly illustrated celebration of America conjures up a time when tales were truly TALL. Set when the country was young and its horizons seemed endless, these epic stories portray a marvelous landscape where outsize legends grew and thrived. Sure to stir the imagination with its humor and wonderfully evocative illustrations, Animal Folk Tales of America features such celebrated figures as Pecos Bill riding a mountain lion; Davy Crockett getting outfoxed by a raccoon; and Paul Bunyan dealing with a mythological creature called a Rumptifusel. As author Tony Palazzo observes, these winning characters were fully “of the new land and the new land loved them. Their great adventures and monumental deeds will forever remain in America’s collective memory.”The legends include:The Jumping FrogA Tale of Pecos BillPaul Bunyan and the Little Blue OxSweet Betsy from PikeJohnny AppleseedDavy Crockett and the Sensible VarmintAnd many more!

Best in Children's Books, Volume 31 edited by Mary Macnab and Gladys Schwarcz. Nelson Doubleday. Garden City, New York. 1960. The contents of Volume 31 include Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the Far West written by Smith Burnham and illustrated by Edward Shenton; Tattercoats retold by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by Colleen Browning; Singh Rajah and the Cunning Jackals retold by Mary Frere and illustrated by Edy Legrand; The Middle Bear written by Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Phyllis Rowand; Chips, the Story of a Cocker Spaniel written by Diana Thorne and Connie Moran and illustrated by Phoebe Erickson; The Picnic Basket written by Margery Clark and illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham; Windy Wash Day and Other Poems written by Dorothy Aldis and illustrated by Maurice Sendak; Go Fly a Kite written by Harry Edward Neal and illustrated by Harvey Weiss; Salt-Water "Zoos" with color photographs; Cornelia's Jewels written by James Baldwin and illustrated by Don Freeman; Three Seeds written by Hester Hawkes and illustrated by Hildegarde Woodward; and Let's Go to Iceland and Greenland with color photographs and an illustrative map. Best in Children's Books was a reading program for youngsters, for which a staff of experts assembled each month a collection of the world's best children's literature, old and new. These volumes, richly illustrated in color by famous artists, are packed from cover to cover with full-length books, poetry, historical adventures, games, fairy tales, nature, science and geography sections -- a wide variety of wholesome reading.

Welcome to the world of the American tall tale!A long out-of-print treasure returns! This loving and vividly illustrated celebration of America conjures up a time when tales were truly TALL. Set when the country was young and its horizons seemed endless, these epic stories portray a marvelous landscape where outsize legends grew and thrived. Sure to stir the imagination with its humor and wonderfully evocative illustrations, Animal Folk Tales of America features such celebrated figures as Pecos Bill riding a mountain lion; Davy Crockett getting outfoxed by a raccoon; and Paul Bunyan dealing with a mythological creature called a Rumptifusel. As author Tony Palazzo observes, these winning characters were fully “of the new land and the new land loved them. Their great adventures and monumental deeds will forever remain in America’s collective memory.”The legends include:The Jumping FrogA Tale of Pecos BillPaul Bunyan and the Little Blue OxSweet Betsy from PikeJohnny AppleseedDavy Crockett and the Sensible Varmint And many more!