Presents twenty-five English-American folktales collected in the 1940s from storytellers in North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, and Maine, including Americanized retellings of "Cinderella," "Robin Hood," "Hansel and Gretel," and "King Lear." Sneak Peek: A collection of folk tales from North Carolina and Virginia for a slightly older audience than that for Chase's Jack Tales.

For grade 7. Published in the Houghton Mifflin reading series in 1991.