American tall tales, Scholastic ; Weston Woods
Type
Label
American tall tales, Scholastic ; Weston Woods
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
American tall tales
Medium
videorecording DVD
Responsibility statement
Scholastic ; Weston Woods
Runtime
33
Series statement
Caldecott collectionDVD library
Summary
John Henry, based on the famous African American folk ballad, this story tells of the legendary contest to the death between a spirited man with a hammer and a steam drill to build a tunnel through the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. Swamp Angel, an original tall tale about Angelica Longrider, better known as Swamp Angel, the greatest woodswoman in Tennessee history. When a huge bear, Thundering Tarnation, can't control his bottomless appetite for settlers' grub, she musters up all her strength of body and heart to tackle him
Table Of Contents
John Henry / Julius Lester, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney -- Swamp Angel / Anne Isaacs, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
Target audience
juvenile
Technique
other
Contributor
Subject
Content
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor7
- Genre2
- Subject8
- Content1