Lies and Other Tall Tales
by Zora Neale Hurston
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A compilation of tall tales collected by folklorist Zora Neale Hurston during her travels in the Gulf states during the 1930s.Tags
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I don't really see kids just sitting down to read this book and enjoying it, but I think it has a lot of instructional potential. It reminds me a lot of the insult throwdowns I used to hear. You're so fat, so stupid, etc. The illustrations are really wonderful because I think they lend themselves to that not quite believable and larger-than-life feel of tall tales.
Lies and Other Tall Tales is a collection of Souther African-American folklore. Zora Neale Hurston traveled the south collecting stories to put together in her collection. The stories range from silly to bizarre. One story tells of the tallest man known while another tells of the biggest man known. These tales are engaging and amusing and keep the reader giggling and scratching his or her head.
An interesting compilation of African American folk tales gathered by Zora Neale Hurston. Not really sure I'd see kids reading the whole thing, but could be an interesting tool in a discussion oral story telling/tradition or the like.
Well!!! am not sure I'd recommend this book for several reasons
1. I dont like the language, e.g. But I knowed a man so smart, the english seemed kind of wrong for me, though I appreciate the fact that children should be exposed to more language forms but this didnt make it for me.
2. It reminded me of the insults we used to trade as children and my mum used to be so enraged when she heard us and so I definitely would not be the one teaching the children these same insults.
1. I dont like the language, e.g. But I knowed a man so smart, the english seemed kind of wrong for me, though I appreciate the fact that children should be exposed to more language forms but this didnt make it for me.
2. It reminded me of the insults we used to trade as children and my mum used to be so enraged when she heard us and so I definitely would not be the one teaching the children these same insults.
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Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1901 in Eatonville, Fla. She left home at the age of 17, finished high school in Baltimore, and went on to study at Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University before becoming one of the most prolific writers in the Harlem Renaissance. Her works included novels, essays, plays, and studies in folklore show more and anthropology. Her most productive years were the 1930s and early 1940s. It was during those years that she wrote her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road, worked with the Federal Writers Project in Florida, received a Guggenheim fellowship, and wrote four novels. She is most remembered for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. In 2018, her previously unpublished work, Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, was published. She died penniless and in obscurity in 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1973, her grave was rediscovered and marked and her novels and autobiography have since been reprinted. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 398.2 — Society, government, & culture Customs, etiquette & folklore Folklore & Folktales Folk literature
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- PZ8.1 .M975 .L — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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