Author : Donald Davis
Publisher : August House Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
While growing up in the mountains of western North Carolina, Davis heard stories that most American children never heard--stories that came to America through Scotch-Irish immigrants about Jack, a universal figure who is found in nearly every culture by various names. Davis was a featured storyteller at SEBA last year and at ALA this summer.
Author : William Bernard McCarthy
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807844434
The "Jack" known to all of us from "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in Two Worlds is a unique collection that brings together eight of these stories as transcribed from ac
Author : Richard Chase
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618346905
The only people who can tell these stories better than Richard Chase are the folks in North Carolina and Virginia who told them to him. These stories have been handed down for generations and have been enjoyed by grownups and children alike.
Author : Orville Hicks
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933251653
"Orville Hicks has enthralled audiences beyond the porches of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, for more than two decades. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns captures the voice of the master storyteller in more than twenty transcribed stories, paired with lively pencil sketches. Having grown up in a hollow, he knows the mountain setting and his clever character Jack"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Donald Davis
Publisher : august house
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780874834130
An Appalachian version of the traditional tale in which a boy and five elderly animals find their fortune in a robbers' den.
Author : Robert Isbell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807849620
Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where
Author : Richard Chase
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
Author : David Maddox
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Folk music
ISBN : 9781583422182
Playbook.
Author : Betty N. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813131382
""Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old Appalachian families in which singing and storytelling were part of everyday life. Gentry took this tradition to heart, and her legacy includes ballads, songs, stories, and riddles. Smith provides a full biography of this vibrant woman and the tradition into which she was born, presenting seventy of Gentry's songs and fifteen of the ""Jack"" tales she learned from her grandfather. When Englishman Cecil Sharp.
Author : Gail E. Haley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2015-03-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781511515511
Jack is the universal folk hero and adventurer. Tales of Jack's adventures are as timeless as bedrock but as fresh as dawn in the Appalachian Mountains. Whether besting ogres, outsmarting flatland card sharps, wrestling with ornery witches, or even taking on Old Man Death himself, the plainspoken hero's common sense, goodness and hill-country humor help him come out on top every time. "In a lucid, vibrant voice, Caldecott Medalist Haley recounts stories that originate in the rugged North Carolina Mountain country ... Haley's use of metaphor, hyperbole and dialect captures the playful spirit of mountain lore. Her emotive, elaborate wood engravings, as well as her afterwords about the stories, the art and language itself, enrich this boyant anthology." -Publishers Weekly Haley's "spirited retellings are salted with backwoods language ... and illustrated with wood engravings that are full of energy, comedy and magical creatures." -Kirkus Reviews
