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Doodlebugs and Dowsers

Doodlebugs and Dowsers

A History of Unusual Ways to Search for Oil

by Dan Plazak

Price: $27.95

ISBN: 9781682831779

Pub Date: May 2023

A popular history of the eccentric and nonscientific methods used in oil exploration
More Spooky Texas Tales

More Spooky Texas Tales

by Tim Tingle and Doc Moore

Illustrated by Jeanne Benas

Price: $18.95

ISBN: 9780896727007

Pub Date: September 2010

The fearsome Chupacabra stalks the desert valley, while a grandson wanders far from the ranch. The woman who’s just moved to the neighborhood wears strange sunglasses after dark. What could be behind them? A man picks up a hitchhiker—only to discover that his passenger is not human. Kids of all ages will find chills and thrills in these tales of the weird, the macabre, and the mysterious, all collected from the lore and legends of the Lone Star State. In addition to “Skinwalker,” the authors’ most requested school concert story, this new volume adds spine-tingling twists on the account of La Llorona, the weeping woman, said to be the world’s best-known ghost; the classic tale “The Money’s Paw”; the story of “The Screaming Banshee Cattle of the Night Swamp,” and seven others. Told with humor and lively modern-day detail, these renderings by veteran storytellers not only please and entertain but...
Spooky Texas Tales

Spooky Texas Tales

by Tim Tingle and Doc Moore

Illustrated by Gina Miller

Price: $18.95

ISBN: 9780896725652

Pub Date: December 2005

A beady-eyed varmint crawls through the floor of a lonely old man’s cabin. A boy spends the night in a haunted house, complete with a grinning skeleton in the chimney. A girl foolishly taunts a giant owl-woman. A young man’s prom date has a spooky secret. The Hairy Man will catch you—unless you can fool him three times. Graveyard ghosts and creatures from swamps and riverbanks slink through ten creepy tales presented by master storytellers Tim Tingle and Doc Moore. Guaranteed to send shivers down the spines of younger readers, each of these stories comes with its own eerie illustrations. Some humorous, some haunting, these tales guarantee thrills and chills for youngsters from any state.
Texas Ghost Stories

Texas Ghost Stories

Fifty Favorites for the Telling

by Tim Tingle and Doc Moore

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780896725263

Pub Date: May 2004

Some humorous, some haunting, and some just late-night terrifying, these stories, gathered by two favorite Texas tellers, span a rich cultural heritage from the earliest Spanish explorers to the present, from La Llorona (the Weeping Woman) to the vanishing hitchhiker. With two appendixes addressing selection, learning, and telling of stories as well as sources and scholarship, Texas Ghost Stories is a full-service compendium for tellers, teachers, readers, and collectors. Celebrating both the blending and the diversity of Texan cultures through the timeless stories we love to be scared by, it is a treasury for all.
Horsing Around, Volume I

Horsing Around, Volume I

Contemporary Cowboy Humor

Edited by Lawrence Clayton, Kenneth Davis and Mary Collins

Price: $17.95

ISBN: 9780896724075

Pub Date: November 1998

The tradition of storytelling and folklore reaches deeply into the American notion of national identity, and among the more prominent emblems of American culture stands the cowboy. Despite the attempts...
The Art of the Turkish Tale, Volume 2

The Art of the Turkish Tale, Volume 2

by Barbara K. Walker

Illustrated by Helen Siegl

Foreword by Talat Halman

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780896723177

Pub Date: January 1993

Eighty narratives alive with the voice and animation of the original storyteller.
Watermelons, Walnuts, and the Wisdom of Allah

Watermelons, Walnuts, and the Wisdom of Allah

And Other Tales of the Hoca

by Barbara K. Walker

Illustrated by Harold Berson

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780896722545

Pub Date: January 1991

Every country has its folk hero—real or legendary, and in Turkey he goes by the name of Nasreddin Hoca, pronounced Nahz-red'-din Hoe'-djah. He lived several years ago and he served as a religious...
The Dancing Palm Tree

The Dancing Palm Tree

And Other Nigerian Folktales

by Barbara K. Walker

Illustrated by Helen Siegl

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780896722163

Pub Date: January 1990

Winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award and the 1990 New York Public Library's list of 100 Best Books for Children. Here are eleven beautifully illustrated tales of magical characters learning the value of courage, grace, honesty, and other virtues in the great circle of life. Included is an exstensive Nigerian glossary of words and names.
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