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“American Tall Tales” by Mary Pope Osborne & Michael McCurdy

“This strikingly handsome, oversized volume presents nine all-American figures whose overblown exploits take them from coast to coast and through all manner of occupations and preoccupations. Osborne has chosen familiar fictitious characters–Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, Febold Feboldson–and actual people, such as Johnny Appleseed and Davy Crockett, and relates episodes that stress the individuals' human weaknesses as well as strengths.”

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See also:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/948529.American_Tall_Tales

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mary-pope-osborne/american-tall-tales/

http://www.michaelmccurdy.com/

http://www.randomhouse.com/author/22894/mary%20pope-osborne?sort=best_13wk_3month

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American tall tales / by Mary Pope Osborne ; wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. — New York : Alfred A. Knopf, cop. 1991. — XII, 115 p. : ill. ; 28cm

Contains: Davy Crockett, Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Johnny Appleseed, Stormalong, Mose, Febold Feboldson, Pecos Bill, John Henry, Paul Bunyan

ISBN-0 679-80089-1

PZ 8.1 .O83 A44 1991