FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. This anthology describes the characteristics of urban legends, and presents a collection of classic tales.

Spiders In The Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Holt, David

Children's Books

Turtleback Books

Born the eighth child in a wealthy Mississippi plantation family in 1843, David Eldred Holt joined Company K of the 16th Mississippi Regiment in 1861 and served in the Eastern theater throughout the Civil War. Late in his life, at a time when many former soldiers, both Union and Confederate, were reliving their memories of that event, Holt penned this memoir, recounting the idyllic life of an affluent southern boy before the war and the exhilarating, sometimes humorous, often terrifying experiences of a common soldier in camp and in battle. This new edition has been expanded to include Holt's never-before-published diary entries from the last year of the war.

A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt

Biographies & Memoirs

Ballard, Michael B.

Cockrell, Thomas D.

Historical

Louisiana State Univ Pr

Ask a storyteller a question and in response you get a story. The interviews in this handbook are packed with well-chosen anecdotes, metaphors, and parables illuminating the art of storytelling as it is practiced today in many varied settings. Rather than representing the opinion of a single author, this comprehensive guide to storytelling features interviews with more than 50 storytellers, including teachers, librarians, authors, musicians, actors, clergymen, and full time professionals.

The Storyteller's Guide (American Storytelling)

Mooney, Bill

Teen & Young Adult

August House

More Ready-To-Tell Tales from Around the World

Winner of Storytelling World Award &amp; Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award
This collection of world tales focuses on stories originating from nearly every continent. They are short, gripping stories that "kick in fast,” including comedy, trickster, tall tales, and family themes for middle and young readers.When David Holt and Bill Mooney collaborated on their original Ready-to-Tell Tales in 1994, they knew they had a tiger by the tail. How do you top what School Library Journal called a "highly recommended...extraordinary collection"? 
With more terrific stories contributed by seasoned storytellers, and with a number of enhanced features, such as age-level and audience recommendations, an index of cultural stories, and profiles and photographs of the contributing storytellers. Forty-four of the world's finest storytellers contribute tales all the way from Senegal to Cuba. These tall tales about wise fools, tricksters and animals will teach readers the importance of caring, fairness and resourcefulness.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

When David Holt and Bill Mooney collaborated on their original Ready-to-Tell Tales, they knew they had a tiger by the tail a how-to book for all those who have watched a master storyteller and wondered, How do they do that? School Library Journal recognized it as an extraordinary collection...it deserves a place on the shelf beside other storytelling classics. It was highly recommended by Booklist and won a truckload of awards and citations.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Winner of the Storytelling World Award
Hey, did you hear about the guy who dropped a lit cigarette into the toilet without seeing the gasoline rags soaking in the bowl? Of course you did, it happened to your cousin's gym teacher. Or was it your gym teacher's cousin? Storytellers David Holt and Bill Mooney follow up their previous hit Spiders in the Hairdo with a whole new collection of modern urban legends. 
Here you'll find stupid criminals, government SNAFU's, scary stories, and a section featuring the Internet. These stories are too good not to pass on.... Once you start telling them, your friends will say you're on a roll! These prankster school stories will teach readers the importance of courage, resourcefulness and fairness.

The Exploding Toilet

Hey, did you hear the one about the man who dropped a lit cigarette into the toilet with some gasoline-soaked rags? Of course you did, it happened to your gym teacher's cousin. Or was it your cousin's gym teacher?

Hairy Man

UNKNO

Everyone loves a good scary story. These spooky tales, woven together with the haunting music of the hammer dulcimer, fiddle and banjo, won't soon be forgotten. Ages 7+David Holt is best know as host of Fire on the Mountains on the Nashville Network and the PBS series Folkways. He is a frequent guest on Hee Haw, Nashville Now and the Grand Ole Opry.Side One: Tallybone, Ross and Anna, Spearfinger, Ducks on the Pond.Side Two: Last Chance, The Hairywoman, Sioux Indians, The Fiddle of Rattlesnake Ridge.Approximately 39 minutes.

Time for A Tale: Tailybone, Scary Tales

Why the Dog Chases the Cat

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

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Books by Holt, David

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Spiders In The Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt

The Storyteller's Guide (American Storytelling)

More Ready-To-Tell Tales from Around the World

More Ready-To-Tell Tales from Around the World

The Exploding Toilet

The Exploding Toilet

Hairy Man

Time for A Tale: Tailybone, Scary Tales

Why the Dog Chases the Cat