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Febold Feboldson, the Fix-It Farmer
Carol Beach York, Irene Trivas
Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, June 1, 1980)While the United States of America was being settled, people liked to make up stories about how things got to be the way they were. About why the deserts were so hot. Where prairie dogs came from. Things like that, and lots more. The storytellers had to have a "hero" for their stories. One of their heroes was called Febold Feboldson. They said he was a farmer in Nebraska. Febold as always trying to be helpful, the storytellers said, and a lot of things might be different today if he hadn't tried to be quite so helpful.
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Washington Irving's Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman
Carol Beach York, Diana Uehlinger, Washington Irving
Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, Feb. 1, 1980)A superstitious schoolmaster, rival for the hand of a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
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Old Stormalong, the Seafaring Sailor
Carol Beach York, Paul Harvey
Paperback (Troll Communications Llc, June 1, 1980)Retells the tales of the legendary Yankee sailor who performed amazing feats of seamanship aboard an extraordinarily large vessel.
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Febold Feboldson, the Fix-It Farmer
Carol Beach York, Irene Trivas
Paperback (Troll Associates, June 1, 1980)While the United States of America was being settled, people liked to make up stories about how things got to be the way they were. About why the deserts were so hot. Where prairie dogs came from. Things like that, and lots more. The storytellers had to have a "hero" for their stories. One of their heroes was called Febold Feboldson. They said he was a farmer in Nebraska. Febold as always trying to be helpful, the storytellers said, and a lot of things might be different today if he hadn't tried to be quite so helpful.
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Old Stormalong, the Seafaring Sailor
Carol Beach York, Paul Harvey
Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, Feb. 1, 1980)Retells the tales of the legendary Yankee sailor who performed amazing feats of seamanship aboard an extraordinarily large vessel.
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Casey Jones
Carol Beach York, Bert Dodson
Paperback (Troll Communications Llc, June 1, 1980)In love with trains since childhood, Casey Jones becomes roundhouse worker, a fireman on a freight train, and finally, the engineer of the Illinois Central Line's locomotive no. 382
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Atariba and Niguayona: A Story from the Taino People of Puerto Rico
Harriet Rohmer, Jesus Guerrero Rea, Consuelo Mendez Castillo
Hardcover (Childrens Book Pr, Feb. 1, 1988)A Taino Indian legend about a young boy and his search for the healing caimoni tree.
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Johnny Appleseed
Carol Beach York, Joan E. Goodman
Paperback (Troll Communications Llc, June 1, 1980)John Chapman, the son of a Massachusetts farmer, earns the nickname Johnny Appleseed as he sets out for the Ohio Valley where he plans to plant orchards for the new settlers
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John Henry, the Steel-Driving Man
Corinne J. Naden, Bert Dodson
Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, Feb. 1, 1980)Retells the life of the legendary steel driver of early railroad days who challenged the steam hammer to a steel-driving contest.
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Johnny Appleseed
Carol Beach York, Joan E. Goodman
Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, Feb. 1, 1980)John Chapman, the son of a Massachusetts farmer, earns the nickname Johnny Appleseed as he sets out for the Ohio Valley where he plans to plant orchards for the new settlers
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Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle
Carol Beach York, Washington Irving, Kinuko Craft
Library Binding (Troll Associates, Feb. 1, 1980)Presents the beloved Catskill legend of lazy, happy-go-lucky Rip Van Winkle who, attempting to escape his nagging wife, wanders into the woods where he falls asleep for twenty years
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Mike Fink
Carol Beach York, Ed Parker
Library Binding (Troll Communications Llc, Feb. 1, 1980)Mike Fink, a riverboat man from Pennsylvania during the era when Americans were moving westward into the frontier, becomes a legend as an alligator tamer, a scout, a crack shot, and one of the bravest men who ever poled a keelboat down the Ohio or Mississippi rivers
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