Assembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the "ballad-singingest, tale-tellingest" residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stori
Burning Brightly is the first full-length book treatment of professional storytelling in North America today. For some years there has been a major storytelling
Today's increasingly interconnected and globalized world demands that students be taught to appreciate human diversity and recognize universally held values and
Paul Bunyan, Br'er Rabbit, Bluebeard, and Billy the Kid. These are just some of the many character alive today through folktales. A goldmine for students, story
“The most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques.”—Journa