Orem Library

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

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After leaving their rocky Connecticut farm to seek their fortunes in the West, Josh McBroom, his wife Melissa, and their eleven redheaded children stop in Iowa where they become owners of a small but very unusual piece of property.

Bill was just four years old when he fell from the family wagon near the Pecos River on the western frontier. Accidentally left behind by his family, he was raised by coyotes, and he didn't realize he was human until he was an adult. When he did, Pecos Bill returned to civilization and used the superhuman powers he'd developed during his peculiar upbringing to become the best cowboy in the West.

Los Heffley deciden huir del frío y de las tensiones navideñas haciendo una escapada a una isla tropical en busca de un merecido descanso. ¡Están convencidos de que unos cuantos días en un lugar de ensueño les sentarán de maravilla! Pero la familia Heffley no tardará en descubrir que eso del paraíso tampoco era para tanto ... Las insolaciones, las indigestiones y las picaduras de bichos de todo tipo amenazan con echar a perder el viaje famiiar....