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Product Description: OLD DRY FRYE is a play script, adapted for the stage by Larry and Vivian Snipes loosely based on the book by Paul Brett Johnson, of the traditional American folk tale of Old Dry Frye, the late preacher man with the voracious appetite, who comes back to haunt his flock! This is commedia American-style with energetic humor, delightful dialect, physical gags, bumbling brothers, a cluck-talking chicken and a series of uproarious adventures taken on by 13 vibrant characters that can be played by a few as 1 female and 2 males...read more

Paperback:

9780876023853 | Anchorage Pr Plays, January 30, 2009, cover price $7.00 | About this edition: OLD DRY FRYE is a play script, adapted for the stage by Larry and Vivian Snipes loosely based on the book by Paul Brett Johnson, of the traditional American folk tale of Old Dry Frye, the late preacher man with the voracious appetite, who comes back to haunt his flock!

Prebinding:

9780613357401 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $14.15 | About this edition: A humorous retelling of an Appalachian folktale about a preacher who chokes on a chicken bone.

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Product Description: "Back some time ago in Appalachia, when folks still had to worry about giants and unicorns and such, there lived a boy named Jack." Jack's caught in a downpour one day and finds a farmhouse in which to spend the night. But there's something funny about the big giant-woman and the big two-headed giant-man who own the place...read more

Paperback:

9781416978619 | Aladdin Paperbacks, May 5, 2008, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: "Back some time ago in Appalachia, when folks still had to worry about giants and unicorns and such, there lived a boy named Jack.

School and Library:

9780689839023 | Margaret K McElderry, June 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this Appalachian folktale, Jack outwits two giants who want fresh meat for breakfast.

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Product Description: "Back some time ago when folks still had to worry about giants and wild unicorns and such, there was an old woman and her son, Jack."So begins this tall tale from the heart of Appalachia about Jack, a boy who goes out to seek his fortune (accompanied by his faithful, although somewhat cowardly, hound) and winds up face-to-face with some pretty ornery critters! How Jack manages to overcome each varmint one by one -- without even meaning to! -- is the heart of this funny, boisterous story from an award-winning artist...read more
By Paul Brett Johnson (adapted by)

Paperback:

9781416968337 | Aladdin Paperbacks, November 28, 2007, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: "Back some time ago when folks still had to worry about giants and wild unicorns and such, there was an old woman and her son, Jack.

School and Library:

9780689832963 | Margaret K McElderry, June 1, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In this Appalachian folktale, Jack wins fame and fortune after killing ten jellow jackets with one whack.

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Enhanced with bright illustrations as well as original music and lyrics, children are presented with this classic camp-time song about one tasty dinner and all the chaos that ensues!

Hardcover:

9780080233659, titled "First World Disarmament Conference and Why It Failed" | Pergamon Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $7.75 | also contains First World Disarmament Conference and Why It Failed, On Top of Spaghetti | About this edition: Book by Noel-Baker, Philip John

School and Library:

9780439749442 | Scholastic, May 1, 2006, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: In an adaptation of the original parody, the hound Yodeler Jones tells what happened when his beloved meatball escaped from a plateful of spaghetti and ended up under a bush outside his restaurant.

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Little Bunny Foo Foo is up to his tricky ways again when he causes havoc on every woodland creature from the foxes to the grizzly bears, but an important conversation with the Good Fairy makes Little Bunny Foo Foo want to change his ways and put an end to all the silly pranks.
By Paul Brett Johnson (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780439373012 | Scholastic, February 1, 2004, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: In an adaptation of the children's song, the good fairy tells of her efforts to make the naughty bunny behave and what happens when these efforts fail.

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By Paul Brett Johnson (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780070840683, titled "Plant Root Systems: Their Functions and Interaction With the Soil" | McGraw-Hill, June 1, 1979, cover price $46.95 | also contains Plant Root Systems: Their Functions and Interaction With the Soil

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Jory fears that he is too small to find a suitable gift to welcome the new parson.
By Kathi Appelt and Paul Brett Johnson (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780688153922, titled "Best Kind of Gift" | 1 edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Jory fears that he is too small to find a suitable gift to welcome the new parson.

Library:

9780688153939 | Harpercollins, April 1, 2003, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: Jory fears that he is too small to find a suitable gift to welcome the new parson.

Product Description: THE COW WHO WOULDN'T COME DOWN received two starred reviews (PW and SLJ) and was selected as an SLJ Best Book of the Year, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon winner, and received other impressive distinctions.Miss Rosemary knows that her cow, Gertrude, has a mind of her own...read more

Paperback:

9780439400688, titled "The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down" | Reprint edition (Scholastic, September 1, 2002), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Miss Rosemary tries everything to coax her flying cow Gertrude down from the sky.
9780531070918 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1997, cover price $6.95 | also contains Strawberry Shortcakes & Lemonade | About this edition: Miss Rosemary tries everything to coax her flying cow Gertrude down from the sky

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9780531054819, titled "The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down" | Orchard Books, March 1, 1993, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Miss Rosemary tries everything to coax her flying cow Gertrude down from the sky

Library:

9780531086315, titled "The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down" | Orchard Books, March 1, 1993, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Miss Rosemary tries everything to coax her flying cow Gertrude down from the sky

Reinforced:

9780606126632, titled "The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down" | Demco Media, September 1, 1997, cover price $13.70 | About this edition: Miss Rosemary tries everything to coax her flying cow Gertrude down from the sky

Prebinding:

9780613720908, titled "Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down" | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $14.30 | also contains Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down | About this edition: THE COW WHO WOULDN'T COME DOWN received two starred reviews (PW and SLJ) and was selected as an SLJ Best Book of the Year, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon winner, and received other impressive distinctions.

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A humorous retelling of an Appalachian folktale about a preacher who chokes on a chicken bone.

Paperback:

9780439163927 | Reprint edition (Scholastic, May 1, 2001), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: A humorous retelling of an Appalachian folktale about a preacher who chokes on a chicken bone.

School and Library:

9780590376587 | Scholastic, September 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A humorous retelling of an Appalachian folktale about a preacher who chokes on a chicken bone.

Reinforced:

9780606227643 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $14.26 | About this edition: A humorous retelling of an Appalachian folktale about a preacher who chokes on a chicken bone.

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Amanda's interest in insects is complimented by Maggie's love of reptiles, but when Maggie finds a new companion in fellow reptile-lover Emily, Amanda begins to feel left out of the picture.
By Paul Brett Johnson (illustrator) and Megan McDonald

School and Library:

9780439293068 | Orchard Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Amanda, who loves insects, and Maggie, who loves reptiles, are best friends until Emily joins their class and Maggie feels left out.

Magnolia the goose longs to be a mother and finally gets her wish when a baby elephant is left behind by a circus.

Hardcover:

9780531303177 | Orchard Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Magnolia the goose longs to be a mother and finally gets her wish when a baby elephant is left behind by a circus.

School and Library:

9780531333174 | Orchard Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $16.01 | About this edition: Magnolia the goose longs to be a mother and finally gets her wish when a baby elephant is left behind by a circus.

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Declaring himself allergic to cats, the cantankerous Mr. Persnickety wages a battle of wills against next-door-neighbor Cat Lady, whose feline menagerie has grown to thirty-seven and who has no plan to surrender.

Hardcover:

9780531302835 | Orchard Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Mr.

School and Library:

9780531332832 | Orchard Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Mr.

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Enjoying the thrill of trade, Amos agrees to take Sam's magical bearhide in place of his prizewinning gourd, yet things don't turn out as planned and Amos is in for some surprises, in a colorfully illustrated Appalachian trickster tale.

School and Library:

9780823414703 | Holiday House, March 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: After Sam tricks Amos into swapping a prize-winning gourd for a smelly old bearhide, Amos decides to give Sam a taste of his own medicine by negotiating an even more worthless trade

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With bouncing verses and riotous illustrations, tells the story of a little girl named Susan whose father could not see all the crazy kinds of animals running around the house.
By Paul Brett Johnson (illustrator) and Megan McDonald

School and Library:

9780531331934 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: As Susan takes her bath and then goes to bed, she is disturbed by a sequence of troublesome and scary creatures
9780531301937 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: As Susan takes her bath and then goes to bed, she is disturbed by a sequence of troublesome and scary creatures

When work ceases in the Kentucky coal mines during the Depression of 1929, a young boy and his family move to the mountains to live off the land

Paperback:

9780813109657 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, August 5, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: When work ceases in the Kentucky coal mines during the Depression of 1929, a young boy and his family move to the mountains to live off the land

Prebinding:

9780613880183 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $18.90 | About this edition: When work ceases in the Kentucky coal mines during the Depression of 1929, a young boy and his family move to the mountains to live off the land

Determined to fly and drive like Gertrude the cow, George the pig ends up in hot water after an unsuccessful driving stint until his owner Miss Rosemary persuades him to be himself.

Hardcover:

9780531301364 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: After her pig George gets a ticket while driving her pick-up truck, Miss Rosemary uses his habit of imitating Gertrude the cow to get him to behave as he should

School and Library:

9780531331361 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: After her pig George gets a ticket while driving her pick-up truck, Miss Rosemary uses his habit of imitating Gertrude the cow to get him to behave as he should

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A compilation of Mother Goose rhymes as collected from the Appalachian region oral tradition
By Paul Brett Johnson (illustrator) and James Still

Hardcover:

9780813120928 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, September 17, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A compilation of Mother Goose rhymes as collected from the Appalachian region oral tradition

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When discovered on the playground in front of the drive-in movie screen, Boulevard, a stray cat, stays in her new home for a short while before taking to the road

School and Library:

9780531301029 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When discovered on the playground in front of the drive-in movie screen, Boulevard, a stray cat, stays in her new home for a short while before taking to the road

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A cranky and hungry Baba Yaga is outwitted by Ivan the Fool, who is anything but, in an original picture book by the illustrator of Too Quiet for These Old Bones.

School and Library:

9780531330708 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1998, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: When Ivan the Fool meets Baba Yaga, the witch of Russian folklore fame, on a day that has begun badly for her, he outwits her by making dirt soup, getting a fine, fat pig in the bargain
9780531300701 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When Ivan the Fool meets Baba Yaga, the witch of Russian folklore fame, on a day that has begun badly for her, he outwits her by making dirt soup, getting a fine, fat pig in the bargain

When Granny complains that her house is far too quiet, her four grandchildren are more than happy to help remedy the situation
By Paul Brett Johnson (illustrator) and Tres Seymour

School and Library:

9780531300527 | Scholastic, September 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When Granny complains that her house is far too quiet, her four grandchildren are more than happy to help remedy the situation
9780531330524 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1997, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: When Granny complains that her house is far too quiet, her four grandchildren are more than happy to help remedy the situation

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No one at home or school understands Amanda Frankenstein's devotion to insects until she meets Maggie.
By Paul Brett Johnson (illustrator) and Megan McDonald

Reinforced:

9780606135184 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, September 1, 1997), cover price $15.80 | About this edition: Amanda Frankenstein's enthusiasm for insects annoys family and friends and definitely sets her apart, until she meets a girl named Maggie, who is crazy for reptiles

Prebinding:

9780613709873 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 1997, cover price $15.55 | also contains Insects Are My Life, Insects Are My Life, Insects Are My Life | About this edition: Amanda Frankenstein's enthusiasm for insects annoys family and friends and definitely sets her apart, until she meets a girl named Maggie, who is crazy for reptiles

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No one at home or school understands Amanda Frankenstein's devotion to insects until she meets Maggie.
By Paul Brett Johnson (illustrator) and Megan McDonald

Paperback:

9780531070932 | Reprint edition (Orchard Books, September 1, 1997), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Amanda Frankenstein's enthusiasm for insects annoys family and friends and definitely sets her apart, until she meets a girl named Maggie, who is crazy for reptiles

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On Saturdays in the summer, Laura goes with her family to help sell their produce at the farmers' market and spend a little time with her friend Betsy

Hardcover:

9780531300145 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: On Saturdays in the summer, Laura goes with her family to help sell their produce at the farmers' market and spend a little time with her friend Betsy

School and Library:

9780531330142 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1997, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: On Saturdays in the summer, Laura goes with her family to help sell their produce at the farmers' market and spend a little time with her friend Betsy

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When a poor Irish peddler follows the instructions given to him by Saint Patrick in a dream, his life is greatly changed
By Margaret Hodges and Paul Brett Johnson (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780531054895 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When a poor Irish peddler follows the instructions given to him by Saint Patrick in a dream, his life is greatly changed

Paperback:

9780531070895 | Reprint edition (Orchard Books, March 1, 1997), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: When a poor Irish peddler follows the instructions given to him by Saint Patrick in a dream, his life is greatly changed

School and Library:

9780531086391 | Orchard Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: When a poor Irish peddler follows the instructions given to him by Saint Patrick in a dream, his life is greatly changed

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