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The wood engravings for this book were cut from single blocks of end-grain maple, and the color was added with watercolor to the final print.Īnd with special thanks to my editor, Anne Schwartz Summary: A collection of tall tales about such American folk heroes as Paul Bunyan, Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Pecos Bill, and John Henry. American tall tales / by Mary Pope Osborne illustrated by Michael McCurdy. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Distributed by Random House LLC, New York. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House Companies. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Illustrations copyright © 1991 by Michael McCurdy.Īll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Text copyright © 1991 by Mary Pope Osborne.
Mary her husband Will spilt their time between an apartment in Greenwich Village, New York and a cabin in Pennsylvania.THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. In February 1993, Mary was elected the 27th president of the Author's Guild, the oldest, most established organization for writers in the United States. She was a bartender, an acting teacher, a waitress, a travel agent, a window dresser, and a medical assistant - all before becoming an author! Now she is the author of many highly acclaimed picture books, early chapter books, middle-grade biographies, and young adult novels. She then joined up with a group of European young people and traveled in rickety vans through sixteen Asian countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal.
After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1970's, Mary traveled all over Europe, and spent the first six weeks of her trip living in a cave on the island of Crete. Mary Pope Osborne grew up in the military, and by the time she was fifteen had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina.
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