transcription and text by Julia Taylor Ebel ; illustration by Sherry Jenkins Jensen ; afterword by Thomas McGowan.
Boone, N.C. :
Parkway Publishers,
2009.
189 pages :
illustrations ;
26 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: A heritage of stories -- Growing-up stories, riddles, and songs -- Jack tales -- Other traditional tales -- A folktale in the making -- Author's note: Stories behind Orville's stories -- Orville and the little people.
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"Orville Hicks has enthralled audiences beyond the porches of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, for more than two decades. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns captures the voice of the master storyteller in more than twenty transcribed stories, paired with lively pencil sketches. Having grown up in a hollow, he knows the mountain setting and his clever character Jack"--Provided by publisher.