Hoop Snakes, Hide Behinds, and Side-Hill Winders: Tall Tales from the Adirondacks - Softcover

Bruchac, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0895945061 ISBN 13: 9780895945068

Publisher: Crossing Pr, 1991

Synopsis

folktales from the Adirondack wilderness

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From Kirkus Reviews:

There's not too much exaggeration in these retold tales, collected from a backwoods region where the coffee's so strong that the spoon doesn't just stand upright, it dissolves, and winters are so cold that residents have to punch the air a few times if they want to take a deep breath--not much out of line in the account of how champion logger Bill Greenfield hauled a giant pancake griddle with the help of his blue ox Babe (not quite so small or weak as young Paul Bunyan's). Some of these stories about the likes of the hoop snake, swamp auger, and other high- country creatures are already familiar; still, this is a good additional collection, enlivened with occasional tongue-in-cheek drawings. (Folklore. 10-13) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crossing Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0895945061
• ISBN 13: 9780895945068
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 115