From Publishers Weekly
This collection of mostly American folktales is reminiscent of the stories children tell each other at sleepovers, on playgrounds or during long car trips: "Wait Till Martin Comes" (he never shows up); "The Yellow Ribbon" (the girl, on her deathbed, unties the ribbon she's always worn around her neckand her head falls off); "The Smart Dog" (he can talk, but he keeps the fact that he's a ventriloquist a secret) and others are among the saucy selections. The telling of the tales moves along at a good clipfew stories are more than a couple of pages long. And Pepper never lingers too long over the punch line; he displays a comedian's timing for knowing when the joke is over. Paul Bunyan and other heroes are here; so are the funny little asides ("She's so mean she'd steal a fly from a blind spider") that tickle children. The cartoon-like illustrations by such artists as Alastair Graham, Mark Hackett and Penny Dann decorate the pagesbut most of the humor is in the images these stories conjure up. Ages 9-up.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
Tall? These stories from all parts of the known and even the unknown world are so tall you have to stand on your own shoulders just to read the page numbers!
