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Ghosts and goosebumps : ghost stories, tall tales, and superstitions from Alabama / compiled by Jack Solomon and Olivia Solomon ; illustrations by Mark Brewton.
- Text
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1994.
- 1994-1981
- 2 Items
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Man and beast in American comic legend / Richard M. Dorson.
- Text
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1982.
- 1982
- 1 Item
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Från lögnsaga till paradis / Anna Birgitta Rooth.
- Text
- Uppsala : [Universitetet] ; Stockholm, Sweden : Distributor, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
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Lying on the eastern slope : James Townsend's comic journalism on the mining frontier / Richard A. Dwyer and Richard E. Lingenfelter.
- Text
- Miami : Florida International University Press, c1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
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Tall tales of British Columbia / [edited] by Michael Taft.
- Text
- Victoria, B.C. : Sound and Moving Image Division, Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Provincial Secretary and Government Services, Provincial Archives, c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HYE 85-1756 Offsite The long & the short & the tall : a collection of Australian yarns / W.N. Scott.
- Text
- Sydney, NSW, Australia : Western Plains Publishers, 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
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The tall tale in American folklore and literature / Carolyn S. Brown.
- Text
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
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Tall tales of Cape Cod / by Marillis Bittinger ; with illustrations by Bruce Adams.
- Text
- Plymouth : Memorial Press, c1948.
- 1948
- 1 Item
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Ozark tall tales : collected from the oral tradition / by Richard and Judy Dockrey Young.
- Text
- Little Rock : August House, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
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I always tell the truth (even if I have to lie to do it!) : stories from the Adirondack Liars' Club / edited by Vaughn Ward ; illustrations by Deborah Delaney.
- Text
- Greenfield Center, N.Y. : Greenfield Review Press, 1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
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Would I lie to you? : the gonna drover & other very true stories / Ted Egan ; illustrated by Peter Viska.
- Text
- Ringwood, Victoria, Australia : Viking O'Neil ; New York, N.Y. : Viking Penguin, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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American tall tales / by Mary Pope Osborne ; wood engravings by Michael McCurdy.
- Text
- New York : Knopf, c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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Larger than life : the adventures of American legendary heroes / by Robert D. San Souci ; illustrated by Andrew Glass.
- Text
- New York : Doubleday, c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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Here comes McBroom! : three more tall tales / by Sid Fleischman ; illustrated by Quentin Blake.
- Text
- New York : Greenwillow Books, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
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Mark Twain and the art of the tall tale / Henry B. Wonham.
- Text
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
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Hoop snakes, hide behinds, and side-hill winders : tall tales from the Adirondacks / by Joseph Bruchac ; illustrated by Tom Trujillo.
- Text
- Freedom, Calif. : Crossing Press, c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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Big men, big country : a collection of American tall tales / written by Paul Robert Walker ; illustrated by James Bernardin.
- Text
- San Diego, CA : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
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Swamp Angel / by Anne Isaacs ; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky.
- Text
- New York : Dutton Children's Books, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
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Bluffologie, oder, Die Kunst, sich durchzumogeln / Heinrich Kalbfuss.
- Text
- München : Wirtschaftsverlag Langen-Müller Herbig, c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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Tell us anotheree! : more yarns from all round Australia / Mike Hayes.
- Text
- Sydney, NSW : ABC Books, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
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Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett : a tall tale / retold and illustrated by Steven Kellogg.
- Text
- New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
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The Australian yarn : the definitive collection / Ron Edwards ; with illustrations by the author.
- Text
- Adelaide : University of Queensland Press, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
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Pecos Bill, Texas cowpuncher / by Harold W. Felton ; illustrations by Aldren Auld Watson.
- Text
- New York : Knopf, 1949.
- 1949
- 1 Item
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Lügenmärchen aus alter und neuer Zeit / gesammelt von C. Narciss ; mit Zeichnungen von Kurt Halbritter.
- Text
- Stuttgart : Steingrüben, 1962.
- 1962
- 1 Item
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A ball of yarn : its unwinding / by Robert Rudd Whiting ; the illustrations by Merle Johnson.
- Text
- San Francisco ; New York : Paul Elder & Company, [1907]
- 1907
- 4 Items
Available Online
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBO (Whiting, R. R. Ball of yarn) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Rare Books 21-425 Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Not available - Please for assistance.Whiskey Jack yarns [microform] : short tales of the old time lumber raftsmen of the Wisconsin River and their mythical hero : raft and river bank tales / Charles E. Brown.
- Text
- Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin Folklore Society, 1940.
- 1940
- 3 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *Z-9919 r. 1 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *Z-9919 r. 2 Offsite Crooked Mick of the Speewah and other tales / presented by Bill Wannan ; illustrated by Gareth Jones-Roberts.
- Text
- Sydney : Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1977, c1965.
- 1977-1965
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JAY B-5381 Offsite Davy Crockett's riproarious shemales and sentimental sisters : women's tall tales from the Crockett almanacs, 1835-1856 / edited with an introduction by Michael A. Lofaro.
- Text
- Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
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Tall tales of York County : ghostly secrets, daredevile priests and walking on water / [compiled by] Jerry L. West.
- Text
- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
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Urban legends : a collection of international tall tales and terrors / edited by Gillian Bennett and Paul Smith.
- Text
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
- 2007
- 1 Item
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The liars, or My uncle's farm [sound recording].
- Audio
- Camden, N.J. : Victor Record, [1909]
- 1909
- 1 Item
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I was born about 10,000 years ago : a tall tale / retold and illustrated by Steven Kellogg.
- Text
- New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
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Peg and the whale / by Kenneth Oppel ; illustrated by Terry Widener.
- Text
- New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J PIC O Offsite Davy Crockett saves the world / by Rosalyn Schanzer.
- Text
- [New York] : HarperCollins Publishers, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J PIC S Offsite Chuck wagon stew / written and illustrated by E.J. Bird.
- Text
- Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J FIC B Offsite Pecos Bill : the greatest cowboy of all time / by James Cloyd Bowman ; pictures by Laura Bannon.
- Text
- New York : New York Review of Books, [2007?].
- 2007
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 B Offsite Moon trouble / by M.C. Helldorfer ; illustrated by Jonathan Hunt.
- Text
- New York : Bradbury Press, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J PIC H Offsite The Baron all at sea : more adventures of Baron Munchausen / as he told them to Adrian Mitchell ; with pictures drawn under water by Patrick Benson.
- Text
- New York : Philomel Books, c1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
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Luck with potatoes / story by Helen Ketteman ; illustrations by Brian Floca.
- Text
- New York : Orchard Books, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J FIC K Offsite The foot-stomping adventures of Clementine Sweet / written by Kitty Griffin and Kathy Combs ; illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka.
- Text
- New York : Clarion Books, c2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J PIC G Offsite Steamboat Annie and the thousand-pound catfish / Catherine Wright ; illustrated by Howard Fine.
- Text
- New York : Philomel Books, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J PIC W Offsite Renata, Whizbrain, and the ghost / by Caron Lee Cohen ; illustrated by Blanche Sims.
- Text
- New York : Atheneum, c1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
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John Tabor's ride / by Edward C. Day ; illustrated by Dirk Zimmer.
- Text
- New York : A. Knopf, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
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Pecos Bill / Ariane Dewey.
- Text
- New York : Greenwillow Books, c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
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Fantazëry / N. Nosov ; risunki I. Semënova.
- Text
- Moskva : Izd-vo "Detska︠i︡a lit-ra", 1967.
- 1967
- 1 Item
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Mr. Yowder and the windwagon / written and illustrated by Glen Rounds.
- Text
- New York : Holiday House, c1983.
- 1983
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J FIC R Offsite Lies and other tall tales / collected by Zora Neale Hurston ; adapted and illustrated by Christopher Myers.
- Text
- New York : HarperCollins, c2005.
- 2005
- 1 Item
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Chinook / by Michael O. Tunnell ; pictures by Barry Root.
- Text
- New York : Tambourine Books, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
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Tales from Gizzard's Grill / by Jeanne Steig ; illustrated by Sandy Turner.
- Text
- [New York] : Joanna Cotler Books, c2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
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John Henry / by Julius Lester ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney.
- Text
- New York : Dial Books, 1994
- 1994
- 3 Items
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