Grandfather Tales
by Richard Chase
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A collection of folk tales from North Carolina and Virginia for a slightly older audience than that for Chase's Jack Tales.Tags
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from notecard for class in 2004:
Rating: 1 (out of a 3 star system?)
Summary: Collection of southern folk tales. Very hard to get into in my opinion.
Rating: 1 (out of a 3 star system?)
Summary: Collection of southern folk tales. Very hard to get into in my opinion.
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- Canonical title
- Grandfather Tales
- Original title
- Grandfather Tales
- Original publication date
- 1948
- Dedication
- TO ALL THE GRANDFATHERS
and grandmothers who told while I listened;
And to Leonard, Eddie, Pat, Harold, Billy, Donnie & Junior, David & Tommy, Bobby, Gerald & Herbie - all clean and ready for bed, who sat around the big warm fireplace at Small Boy's House one cold w... (show all)inter-time listening while I told;
TO ALL TELLERS AND LISTENERSold and young, who discover what Tom Hunt meant when he said
"No, it'll not do just to read the old tales out of a bookYou've got to tell 'em to make 'em go right." - First words
- Old Christmas Eve:
It was on one of my first trips to Crockett County that James Turner took me out to see Tom Hunt. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Chunk O Meat:
James Turner and I got in the car and made ther first wheel tracks in the clean white road.
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- English
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- ISBNs
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