Tall Tales

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Tall Tales

• Patti Evans
• Librarian
• Carlisle Elementary

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Tall tales are like legends but with a twist of
humor.
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Legends are..

• Folk stories about real or
• imaginary people.
• Based in some fact but
• much is embellished.

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About Legends...

• Its hard to tell where the
• facts stop and the
• imagination takes over.
• They come to us by word of
• mouth.

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• As the story is
• repeated, it may be
• elaborated until it
• becomes a .............

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• .LEGEND

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Beyond a legend

• Each country has its own folk heroes who
  exemplify the character traits its people value.
• These stories are a combination of history, myth
  and fact.
• In America, we call these stories..

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TALL TALES
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American Tall Tales

• Consist of folk heroes who
• exemplify the character traits
• that its people value.
• Davy Crockett, Johnny
• Appleseed, and Daniel Boone
• were real people but their
• stories made them larger than
• life.

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American Tall Tales

• Pecos Bill, Paul
  Bunyan,
• and Mike Fink were mythical
• men but their feats of brawn
• and muscle were required to
• help develop America.

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American Tall Tales

• These folk heroes were created by
• people who needed idols and symbols
• of strength to build a new country -
• They exaggerated the size and deeds of these
  heroes.
• Heroes like.......

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Pecos Bill
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Davy Crockett
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John Henry...Steel Driven Man
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The heroes and heroinesof tall
tales are the mightiest, strongest, most daring
lumberjacks, railroad workers, coal miners, steel
workers, or whatever was needed to make America
great.
American Tall Tales
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American Tall Tales
The exaggerated humor adds zest to the harsh
life of hard labor that many Americans were
experiencingin the 1800s.
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American Tall Tales

• Tall tales are a part
• of our history and a
• part of our literature....

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Enjoy some of the Tall Tales our library has to
offer

• Pecos Bill
• Paul Bunyan
• Sally Ann Thunder

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Characters as unique as the country that
inspired them.

• Library Lil Big Men, Big Country John Henry
  Johnny Appleseed Old Stormalong

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