A down-home version of the classic fairy tale, from Appalachia, introduces new twists and curls in characters and action

Jack and Wonder Beans

Children's Books

Still, James

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Putnam Juvenile

With illustrations by Paul Brett JohnsonSporty Creek is a series of short stories set in the Kentucky hills. Narrated by a young boy (a cousin of the narrator of Still's classic novel River of Earth), the book tells the story of his family during the Great Depression. With work in the coal mines sporadic, they move from place to place, trying to earn a living the best they can. The story is told with gentleness and humor.

Sporty Creek: A novel about an Appalachian boyhood

PUTNAM

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Early Recollections And Life Of Dr. James Still

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Kessinger Publishing

Amber waves

Samuel. French

The Run for the Elbertas

In language both spare and colorful, sure in its command of Appalachian dialect and poetic in its evocation of mountain settings, James Still's stories reveal the lives of his people―lives of privation and struggle, lived with honesty as well as humor. With a foreword by Cleanth Brooks and an afterword by the author, The Run for the Elbertas features thirteen stories from one of America's masters of the short story. Enjoyable and enriching, Still's stories sparkle with wisdom and joy.

Literature & Fiction

United States

University Press of Kentucky

With illustrations by Paul Brett Johnson Sporty Creek is a series of short stories set in the Kentucky hills. Narrated by a young boy (a cousin of the narrator of Still's classic novel River of Earth), the book tells the story of his family during the Great Depression. With work in the coal mines sporadic, they move from place to place, trying to earn a living the best they can. The story is told with gentleness and humor.

Sporty Creek

Teen & Young Adult

Historical Fiction

The University Press of Kentucky

First published in 1940, James Still's masterful novel has become a classic. It is the story, seen through the eyes of a boy, of three years in the life of his family and their kin. He sees his parents pulled between the meager farm with its sense of independence and the mining camp with its uncertain promise of material prosperity. In his world privation, violence, and death are part of everyday life, accepted and endured. Yet it is a world of dignity, love, and humor, of natural beauty which Still evokes in sharp, poetic images. No writer has caught more effectively the vividness of mountain speech or shown more honestly the trials and joys of mountain life.

River Of Earth

Contemporary

Univ Pr of Kentucky

The people of the Kentucky mountains and the southern Appalachians preserved a language alive with colorful turns of phrase and whimsical wit and for their amusement they created a rich vein of oral lore―songs, tales, and games. James Still presents a varied and entertaining collection of riddles, whimsies, and verbal pranks, gathered through his long association with the mountain people of eastern Kentucky. This book includes in one volume two earlier books―Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek and The Wolfpen Rusties―that have been unavailable for several years. It contains the complete text of the original editions, including Still's explanatory notes for archaic or obscure expressions. Also included are the original lively illustrations by the noted artist Janet McCaffery.

Rusties and Riddles and Gee-Haw Whimmy-Diddles

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Still's delightful Appalachian retelling of "Jack and the Beanstalk," with illustrations by Margot Tomes, was the New York Times Book Review Judges' Choice for Best Illustrated Children's Book when it first appeared in 1977. This reprint makes available an Appalachian rendition of a beloved children's classic to a new generation of readers.

Jack And The Wonder Beans

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Jack and Wonder Beans

Sporty Creek: A novel about an Appalachian boyhood

Early Recollections And Life Of Dr. James Still

Amber waves

The Run for the Elbertas

Sporty Creek

River Of Earth

The Run for the Elbertas

Rusties and Riddles and Gee-Haw Whimmy-Diddles

Jack And The Wonder Beans