Storytelling World/Storytelling Magazine Award Winner"I love a book that gives me what it promises, and this one does: fifty real ghost stories, drawn from a variety of sources and told in as many voices, written so as to simulate the language and delivery of a face-to-face performance, and artfully, delightfully done." Review of Texas Books"Scarcely a page will you turn in this collection of ghost stories in Texas without encountering a disembodied hand or a fang baby creatures guaranteed to shock the shell of an armadillo. . . . Whether you read the tales out loud or spin them around a...
Storytelling World/Storytelling Magazine Award Winner"I love a book that gives me what it promises, and this one does: fifty real ghost stories, drawn...
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 young 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...
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 skeleto...
In Walking the Choctaw Road, Tingle reaches far back into tribal memory to offer this deeply personal collection of stories woven from the supernatural, mythical, historical and oral accounts of Choctaw people living today. Native American storyteller Joe Bruchac says, "For a good many years now, Tim Tingle has been one of my favorite American story-tellers. Walking the Choctaw Road . . . will stay with you and lend you some of its strength. Cross the river with these stories--they'll give you safe passage."
Tim Tingle lives in Canyon Lake, Texas. His appearances...
In Walking the Choctaw Road, Tingle reaches far back into tribal memory to offer this deeply personal collection of stories woven from the s...
Travis Lee and Miranda Monroe are taken in by missionaries in Southern Colombia. While there, Travis recounts the events of his visit there twenty years earlier, and comes face to face with an old sorcerer bent on revenge. They face a danger more terrifying than anything they have ever known. Travis also gets to the bottom of what is really going on at his company's Colombian coal mines, and the answer is simple but surprising. This is Part Three of the Travis Lee Series, the sequal to 'Return To Colombia'.
Travis Lee and Miranda Monroe are taken in by missionaries in Southern Colombia. While there, Travis recounts the events of his visit there twenty yea...
When it was first published, Crossing Bok Chitto took readers by surprise. This moving and original story about the intersection of Native and African Americans received starred reviews and many awards, including being named an ALA Notable Children's Book and a Jane Addams Honor Book. Jeanne Rorex Bridges' illustrations mesmerized readers--Publishers Weekly noted that her "strong, solid figures gaze squarely out of the frame, beseeching readers to listen, empathize and wonder."
Choctaw storyteller Tim Tingle blends songs, flute, and drum to bring the lore of the...
When it was first published, Crossing Bok Chitto took readers by surprise. This moving and original story about the intersection of Native a...
