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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
When birds could talk & bats could sing	Virginia Hamilton	A collection of stories, featuring sparrows, jays, buzzards, and bats, based on those African American tales originally written down by Martha Young on her father's plantation in Alabama after the Ci…	OL112106W
Cut from the Same Cloth	Robert D. San Souci	A collection of twenty stories about legendary American women, drawing from folktales, popular stories, and ballads.	OL116633W
Moaning bones	James Haskins	More than fifteen tales from the oral tradition probably originally recorded in the 1920s and 1930s such as "The Haunted Stateroom,""Black Tom," and "The Ghost in the Back Seat."	OL14865435W
Leola and the honeybears	Melodye Rosales	An African American version of Goldilocks and the three bears.	OL14865673W
From sea to shining sea	Molly Bang,Amy L. Cohn	A compilation of more than 140 folk songs, tales, poems, and stories telling the history of America and reflecting its multicultural society. Illustrated by award-winning artists.	OL15830725W
Febold Feboldson	Ariane Dewey	The Nebraska farmer conquers cyclones, blizzards, fog, and grasshoppers in incredible ways.	OL15842753W
Folklore and Legends of Rochester	Michael T. Keene	"Born from the chilly waters of Lake Ontario and the Genesee River, Rochester, New York, has been the cradle of the modern spiritualist an anti-Masonic movements and religious sects and communes. Thi…	OL15979901W
Further tales of Uncle Remus	Julius Lester	A retelling of the classic Afro-American tales relating the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.	OL1814451W
Tailypo!	Jan Wahl	A strange varmint haunts the woodsman who lopped off its tail.	OL18180161W
La llorona =	Joe Hayes	A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.	OL1846030W
The story of Brer Rabbit and the wonderful tar baby	Eric Metaxas	Relates how the wily Brer Rabbit outwits Brer Fox who has set out to trap him.	OL1958042W
Cross your fingers, spit in your hat	Alvin Schwartz	Superstitions about such topics as love and marriage, money, ailments, travel, the weather, and death.	OL2623426W
Way up and over everything	Alice McGill	In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.	OL2676052W
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	Alvin Schwartz,Alvin Schwartz	More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.	OL273693W
The legend of the lady slipper	Lise Lunge-Larsen	In this retelling of an Ojibwe tale, a girl's act of bravery to save her family leads to the appearance in the world of the delicate and tender flower called the lady's slipper.	OL2744752W
GhostWest	Ann Ronald	"Our sense of place today is permeated by ghosts from the past. In GhostWest, Ann Ronald takes the reader to actual historical sites where something once happened. Using the metaphor of hauntings, sh…	OL3524310W
Pecos Bill	Stephen Krensky,Paul Tong	Folks might think Pecos Bill was nothing but trouble. After all, he was raised by coyotes in the Wild West. And he made friends with a gang of outlaws. But Bill had a heart of gold. All he wanted was…	OL448408W
John Henry	Christianne C. Jones	Read-it! Readers: Tall Tales These well-known legends will become well-loved books, as readers learn these classic tall tales through lively illustrations and unforgettable characters.	OL5715871W
Jack and the wonder beans	James Still	In this Appalachian variant of the traditional tale, Jack trades his old cow to a gypsy for three beans that are guaranteed to feed him his entire life.	OL74745W
John Henry	Ezra Jack Keats	Describes the life of the legendary steel-driving man who was born with and who died with a hammer in his hand.	OL831037W