Tall Tales For Short People

Author : Julia Gousseva
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1477625895

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Tall Tales for Short People by Julia Gousseva Pdf

Tall Tales for Short People will make you laugh, dream, and time-travel. This collection of short stories is for kids ages four to eleven. Older kids can read some stories, such as Jungle Music and Little Dragonfly, to their younger siblings. The eleven stories in this book will show you how to cook a simply magical meal with the help of a Self-Cooking Tablecloth, amuse you with an accidental time travel adventure into the pioneer school house, convince you that even a little Dragonfly has the power to do big things, remind you to never be scared of white dresses hanging in your mom's bathroom, and transport you into the world of childhood magic and fun discoveries.

Author : John Schwartz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429953023

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Short by John Schwartz Pdf

A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO GROWING UP SHORT. Part science book, part memoir—a book for everyone concerned about looking (or feeling) different. When veteran journalist John Schwartz took a close look at famous height studies, he made a surprising discovery: being short doesn't have to be a disadvantage! Part advice book, part memoir, and part science primer, this fascinating book explores the marketing, psychology, and mythology behind our obsession with height and delivers a reassuring message to kids of all types that they can walk tall—whatever it is that makes them different. Short is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307982599

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American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne Pdf

The perfect addition to every family’s home library and just right for sharing aloud, American Tall Tales introduces readers to America’s first folk heroes in nine wildly exaggerated and downright funny stories. Here are Paul Bunyan, that king-sized lumberjack who could fell “ten white pines with a single swing”; John Henry, with his mighty hammer; Mose, old New York’s biggest, bravest fireman; Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, who could “outgrin, outsnort, outrun, outlift, outsneeze, outsleep, outlie any varmint”; and other uniquely American characters, together in one superb collection. In the tradition of the original nineteenth-century storytellers, Mary Pope Osborne compiles, edits, and adds her own two cents’ worth—and also supplies fascinating historical headnotes. Michael McCurdy’s robust colored wood engravings recall an earlier time, perfectly capturing all the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country out of the North American wilderness.

Author : Melissa Rivers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781642937411

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Lies My Mother Told Me by Melissa Rivers Pdf

If you think Joan Rivers said funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things ONSTAGE, wait ’til you read the funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things she said OFFSTAGE…things that will make you laugh out loud…and keep Melissa in therapy for the foreseeable future. The only thing my mother loved more than making people laugh was lying…or as she’d say, “embellishing.” Her motto was: “Why let the truth ruin a good story?” This book contains some of those stories. ***************** “When Joan told a story, the truth disappeared faster than I did.” — Jimmy Hoffa “If you thought Dante’s Inferno was hot, read Lies My Mother Told Me; it’s a five-alarmer.” — Dante’s second wife, Allie “Twelve of my twenty-six personalities loved this book.” — Sybil “The words on the page absolutely crackle and spark; I burned my fingers reading it!” — Annie Sullivan “The Bible may be the good book, but Lies My Mother Told Me is way funnier.” — Matthew 2:14 The Jets. 7 “Lies My Mother Told Me is the feel-good book of 2022.” — Torquemada “All’s not well that ends well. I’ve had massages with happier endings.” — Wm. Shakespeare “Melissa, I don’t care what your mother said in this book, I LOVE your bangs.” — Mamie Eisenhower “Lies My Mother Told Me is so funny even those ‘woke’ m***********s will laugh.” — Lenny Bruce

Author : Steve Van Bakel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American fiction
ISBN : OCLC:1359404700

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Tall Tales and Short Stories by Steve Van Bakel Pdf

Author : Adam J. Criblez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781442277687

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Tall Tales and Short Shorts by Adam J. Criblez Pdf

In basketball, just as in American culture, the 1970s were imperfect. But it was a vitally important time in the development of the nation and of the National Basketball Association. During this decade Americans suffered through the war in Vietnam and Nixon’s Watergate cover-up (not to mention disco music and leisure suits) while the NBA weathered the arrival of free agency and charges that its players were “too black.” Despite this turmoil, or perhaps because of it, the NBA evolved into a cultural phenomenon. Tall Tales and Short Shorts: Dr. J, Pistol Pete, and the Birth of the Modern NBA traces the evolution of the NBA from the retirement of Bill Russell in 1969 to the arrival of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson ten years later. Sandwiched between the youthful league of the sixties and its mature successor in the eighties, this book reveals the awkward teenage years of the NBA in the seventies. It examines the many controversies that plagued the league during this time, including illicit drug use, on-court violence, and escalating player salaries. Yet even as attendance dwindled and networks relegated playoff games to tape-delayed, late-night broadcasts, fans still pulled on floppy gray socks like “Pistol Pete” Maravich, emulated Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s sweeping skyhook, and grew out mushrooming afros à la “Dr. J” Julius Erving. The first book-length treatment of pro basketball in the 1970s, Tall Tales and Short Shorts brings to life the players, teams, and the league as a whole as they dealt with expansion, a merger with the ABA, and transitioning into a new era. Sport historians and basketball fans will enjoy this entertaining and enlightening survey of an often-overlooked time in the development of the NBA.

Author : Ferrol Sams
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781461734444

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When All the World Was Young by Ferrol Sams Pdf

The final installment in Sam's epic trilogy about coming of age in the South.

Author : James Woods
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781504354615

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Short Stories and Tall Tales by James Woods Pdf

This is a journey through, rather than a book of short stories and tales of the, Mystical Ireland that is my home. A land of celebration and a land of those who are not too saintly or too scholarly. It is an island of Banshees, Witches, Pookas and other strange creatures. There is much humour to be had in the Emerald Isle and some of these stories reflect that humour, be it rural or urban. These are stories of hardworking people and those who prefer to avoid work, whether it be hard or easy. It is also a book that describes an Ireland that is fast disappearing in this modern world, bringing with it its traditions and values. Much of what you read in these stories is still part of life in the Emerald Isle and we folklorists are trying our best to ensure that their memory will remain for generations to come. So come with me in this book to the land, where mists hide more than the eye can see and the mind accept as truth.

Author : Pat Mora
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385376143

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Dona Flor by Pat Mora Pdf

Doña Flor is a giant woman who lives in a puebla with lots of families. She loves her neighbors–she lets the children use her flowers for trumpets, and the families use her leftover tortillas for rafts. So when a huge puma is terrifying the village, of course Flor is the one to investigate. Featuring Spanish words and phrases throughout, as well as a glossary, Pat Mora’s story, along with Raúl Colón’s glorious artwork, makes this a treat for any reader, tall or small. Award-winning author Pat Mora’s previous book with Raúl Colón, Tomás and the Library Lady, received the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award, an IRA Teacher’s Choice Award, a Skipping Stones Award, and was also named a Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List title and an Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature commended title. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Author : Steve Van Bakel
Publisher : Calgary : Tall Tales Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 097330877X

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Tall Tales and Short Stories. Vol. IV by Steve Van Bakel Pdf

Author : Candy Gourlay
Publisher : David Fickling Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375898471

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Tall Story by Candy Gourlay Pdf

Andi is short. And she has lots of wishes. She wishes she could play on the school basketball team, she wishes for her own bedroom, but most of all she wishes that her long-lost half-brother, Bernardo, could come and live in London where he belongs. Then Andi's biggest wish comes true and she's minutes away from becoming someone's little sister. As she waits anxiously for Bernardo to arrive from the Philippines, she hopes he'll turn out to be tall and just as crazy as she is about basketball. When he finally arrives, he's tall all right. Eight feet tall, in fact—plagued by condition called Gigantism and troubled by secrets that he believes led to his phenomenal growth. In a novel packed with quirkiness and humor, Gourlay explores a touching sibling relationship and the clash of two very different cultures.

Author : Montgomery Thomas
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781365181818

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Musings: A Collection of Essays, Short Stories, and Tall Tales by Montgomery Thomas Pdf

Musings will make you laugh, cry, and ponder the substance of your life. Appearing as random stories, collectively they reveal the subtleties that comprise modern life and explore the human equation. Montgomery Thomas reveals the inner workings of the psyche through projected introspection. From broken friendships to social influence to a tempting dalliance, Thomas jabs at the reader's heart and demands a response. He elicits emotion and the need to deliberate the circumstances of one's life.

Author : Barry Lubin
Publisher : AuthorMike Ink
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780991033027

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Tall Tales of A Short Clown by Barry Lubin Pdf

Tall Tales of a Short Clown is the story of Barry Lubin, whose alter ego, Grandma, became one of the most successful clowns in American history, and was named "The World's Funniest Grandma" in Germany. Barry has entertained well over a hundred million people in circus rings, stadiums, arenas, on stage, in festivals, in films, and on television as the funny little carpetbagger with a mischievous view of the world. Barry is undoubtedly the only person to have achieved the combination of performing a running headstand onto a whoopee cushion on stage at Carnegie Hall, eating well over 10,000 bagels, and managing to piss off Ringo Starr, Meryl Streep, Gene Kelly, and Bruce Springstein as well as being inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame. Tall Tales of a Short Clown follows Barry's journey from Emerson College dropout to Clown College graduate, from his early failures on the Greatest Show on Earth to his induction into the Ring of Fame, the highest honor in clowning and in circus. He reveals his struggles with drug abuse and alcoholism and his journey into sobriety, his bout with thyroid cancer and his triumphant return to the ring, and his love affair with audiences on six continents over five decades, to earn his place as one of the most beloved clowns in history.

Author : Robert S. Bader
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781557839213

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Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales by Robert S. Bader Pdf

(Applause Books). Groucho Marx was a comic genius who starred on stage and in film, radio, and television. But he was also a gifted writer the author of a play, two screenplays, seven books, and over 100 articles and essays. This newly expanded collection presents the best of Groucho's short comic pieces, written over a period of more than fifty years between 1919 and 1973 for the New York Times , the New Yorker , the Saturday Evening Post , Variety , the Hollywood Reporter , and other newspapers and magazines. Here is the one and only Groucho on his family, his days in vaudeville, his career, World War II, taxes, and other topics from his love of a good cigar to his chronic insomnia, from "Why Harpo Doesn't Talk" to "The Truth About Captain Spalding." The familiar irreverence, wordplay, and a dash of self-deprecation bring Groucho's wisecracking voice to life in these pages, firmly establishing him as one of the world's great humorists. Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales (a title of Groucho's own choosing) is essential reading for Marx Brothers fans, and a hilarious and nostalgic trip through the twentieth century.

Author : Ritchie R. Moorhead
Publisher : Author House
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781463408466

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The Kid Looks Back-Short Stories & Tall Tales by Ritchie R. Moorhead Pdf

The Kid Looks Back is a collection of sixty-eight stories that cover a wide range of topics. I hope that his book will be a gentle hiding place where you can go to get away from something, return to something or go where you have never been. Some of these stories are true. Others are factually true, although bit embellished. Others are outright fabrications. Most look back to a kinder, mellower time. Digging for worms, swimming in a pond, using an outhouse or wading in a river may bring gross evaluations from our urbanized cousins. I hope that this book introduces them to life with a smile. Most of the stories have a message. Many are simply humorous. Entertainment is the motive. Carefree is the mood. Try to find yourself within these pages. May the beak of reality crack your comfort shell. Start anywhere. Finish anytime. Enjoy!