American Tall Tales

Title: American Tall Tales

Author: Adrien Stoutenburg

Rating: ★★★★☆

Age Category: Middle Grade

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    "Here... are the most robust characters in American legend. Told by a poet with a poet's ear for the impact of words, these American mavericks walk and talk across the pages in a free, wide way, as they walked and talked across the free, wide America of pioneer days." - Publisher's Weekly -

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 “A picture is worth a thousand words but the memories are priceless.” — Unknown —

Sonnet 5 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 5

by William Shakespeare

Those hours, that with gentle work did frame

The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,

Will play the tyrants to the very same

And that unfair which fairly doth excel:

For never-resting time leads summer on

To hideous winter and confounds him there;

Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,

Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where:

Then, were not summer's distillation left,

A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,

Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,

Nor it nor no remembrance what it was:

But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,

Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

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 “I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” — Michel Foucault —

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 “Memories are the invisible threads that keep us tied to the people we love.” — Unknown —

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 “Memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.” — Kahlil Gibran —

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 “Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And the best people give you memories.” — Zig Ziglar —