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  • Race With Buffalo: And Other Native American Stories for Young Readers

    Richard Young

    Paperback (August House, March 7, 2006)
    The stories in this collection are vessels of century-old Native American lore, some of them perhaps brought to this continent by the original Native American settlers over 12,000 years ago. These stories include tales about ancient times, young heroes, tricksters, magical beasts and much more.
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  • Once upon a Galaxy

    Josepha Sherman

    Hardcover (August House, Jan. 1, 1955)
    Science fiction is all around us. Fantasy fiction is just as widely known in today's world of entertainment. But what few readers of science fiction and fantasy realize is that these stories of wizards and starships have much older roots in the world of folklore. Cultures throughout the world share certain references. Every culture has heroes who must fulfill great quests

  • Timeless Tales

    Bobby Norfolk

    Audio Cassette (August House, March 6, 2006)
    A forced marriage. A dangerous job. A horrible assignment. Character-building experiences, we quip. And that's the truth. Painful as the truth may be, we cannot achieve our potential without facing force, danger, and horror head-on. Even as our children glibly chime, The truth shall set you free, we adults know that the truth is not easily discerned, or wisdom easily won. The six stories chosen by Bobby Norfolk for this new recording remind us adults and—through entertaining drama—teach our children that critical lesson. What Bobby Norfolk does with the material makes it so much more than an exercise in wisdom literature. Listening to this cassette, one has the sense of being in the presence of a master performer of the oral tradition. Bobby Norfolk's dynamic pacing, the range of his incredible voice, and his mastery of the story material itself, make this new recording an important and satisfying addition to your storytelling or folklore shelf.

  • Anansi Time

    Bobby Norfolk

    Audio Cassette (August House, March 2, 2006)
    The author retells of Anansi the tricky spider as he learns hard lessons when his selfishness and greed comically rebound on him, teaching values of sharing and hospitality, and bringing benefits such as light and wisdom to the world.

  • Of Kings and Fools: Stories of the French Tradition in North America

    Michael Parent, Julien Olivier

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2008-06-26, June 26, 2008)
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  • Southern Bells

    Donald Davis

    Audio Cassette (August House, Jan. 30, 2006)
    When the Southern Bells brought the modern age in the form of the telephone and the party line to Waynesville North Carolina, it was about 1953. The Southern Bells were modern in every way, recalls Davis. This was no old-time wooden crank-phone. Our telephone looked like a big, black daffodil with an extra cup hanging on the side of it.

  • Listening for the Crack of Dawn

    Donald Davis

    Audio Cassette (August House, Jan. 1, 1955)
    Audiences at storytelling festivals worldwide are passionate about Donald Davis and his deceptively soft-edged Appalachian stories. Developed in oral performance, Davis'stories resonate in the experiences of his listeners and readers. The fourteen stories in this, his signature title, are so convincingly private as to be universal. The laughter, silent tears, and thunderous applause these stories elicit in live performance and the many repeat-buyers who give the book to friend after friend prompted us to commemorate them in this anniversary edition.

  • Ghost Stories from the Pacific Northwest

    Margaret Read MacDonald

    Hardcover (August House, March 2, 2006)
    Here is a ghostly gazetteer chronicling the numerous contemporary accounts of Northwestern hauntings and other strange happenings reported in British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.
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  • Wonder Tales from Around the World

    Heather Forest

    Audio Cassette (August House, Feb. 28, 2006)
    Traditional stories endure generation after generation because although they are not literal they resound in truths on a human scale. Folktales remind us of wisdom so elemental it is often lost in the rush of everyday life, so that sometimes common sense makes no sense at all.

  • Still Catholic

    Ed Stivender

    Hardcover (August House, Dec. 27, 2005)
    In his Apologetics class at Monsignor Bonner High School, Ed Stivender, designated clown, crossed Father McGinnis once too often. His punishment: a debate whose topic was The Existence of God. His assignment: the argument against it.
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  • Braces

    Donald Davis

    Audio Cassette (August House, March 2, 2006)
    Braces hurt. Braces are embarrassing. Braces are inconvenient. Many get fitted with them at the very time of their life when their self-confidence is lowest and their self-consciousness is highest. This coming-of-age story, created and performed by Donald Davis, employs the author's trademark characterizations and humor to explore the state of uncertainty that getting braces throws one into. Also includes another Davis favorite, Everybody Goes to the Beach.

  • Half Horse Half Alligator

    Bill Mooney

    Audio Cassette (August House, Feb. 28, 2006)
    Describes the challenges of settling the West, including the humor of pioneering mishaps.