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Fiction | Nonfiction | American Tall Tales

Fiction

Aylesworth, Jim.  My Sister's Rusty Bike.
Bartone, Elisa.  American Too.
Berlin, Irving.  God Bless America.
Brown, Richard Eric.  Hooray for the 4th of July!
Chall, Marsha Wilson.  Happy Birthday, America!
Corey, Shana.  Players in Pigtails.
Drummond, Allan.  Liberty!
Fleming, Candace.  A Big Cheese for the White House: The True Story of a Tremendous Cheddar.
Garland, Michael.  The President and Mom's Apple Pie.
Gerrard, Roy.  Wagons West!
Hillert, Margaret.  Let's Go, Dear Dragon.
Johnson, D. B.  Henry Hikes to Fitchburg.
Keller, Holly.  Henry's Fourth of July.
Keller, Laurie.  The Scrambled States of America.
Lasky, Kathryn.  Fourth of July Bear.
Loomis, Christine.  Across America, I Love You.
Neubecker, Robert.  Wow! America!
Osborne, Mary Pope.  Happy Birthday, America.
Osborne, Mary Pope.  New York's Bravest.
Roberts, Bethany.  Fourth of July Mice!
Rylant, Cynthia.  Tulip Sees America.
Say, Allen.  Grandfather's Journey.
Smith, Lane.  John, Paul, George, & Ben.
Watson, Wendy.  Hurray for the Fourth of July.
Wells, Rosemary.  McDuff Saves the Day.
Wilson, Karma.  How to Bake an American Pie.
Wong, Janet S.  Apple Pie 4th of July.
Ziefert, Harriet.  Hats Off for the Fourth of July!

Nonfiction

Borden, Louise.  America Is...
Catrow, David.  We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States.
Cheney, Lynne V.  Our 50 States: A Family Adventure across America.
Dalgliesh, Alice.  The Fourth of July Story.
Frost, Helen.  Independence Day.
Giblin, James.  Fireworks, Picnics, and Flags.
Bates, Katharine Lee.  America the Beautiful.
Guthrie, Woody.  This Land Is Your Land.
Heiligman, Deborah.  Celebrate Independence Day.
Heinrichs, Ann.  Independence Day.
Hoig, Stan.  It's the Fourth of July!
Hopkins, Lee Bennett.  My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States.
Kalman, Maira.  Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.  The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.
Merrick, Patrick.   Fourth of July Fireworks.
Shachtman, Tom.  America's Birthday: The Fourth of July.
Trueit, Trudi Strain.  Independence Day.
Yaccarino, Dan.  Go, Go, America.

American Tall Tales

Bertrand, Lynn.  Granite Baby.
Cuyler, Margery.  That's Good! That's Bad! In Washington, D. C.
Crunk, Tony.  Railroad John and the Red Rock Run.
Heller, Linda.  The Castle on Hester Street.
Isaacs, Anne.  Swamp Angel.
Johnson, Paul Brett.  Old Dry Frye: A Deliciously Funny Tall Tale.
Kellogg, Steven.  Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale.
Kellogg, Steven.  Mike Fink: A Tall Tale.
Kellogg, Steven.  Pecos Bill: A Tall Tale.
Kellogg, Steven.  Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett: A Tall Tale.
Krensky, Stephen.  Casey Jones.
Krensky, Stephen.  John Henry.
Krensky, Stephen.  Paul Bunyan.
Lorbiecki, Marybeth.  Paul Bunyan's Sweetheart.
Osborne, Mary Pope.  American Tall Tales.
San Souci, Robert D.  Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale.
San Souci, Robert D.  Larger Than Life: The Adventures of American Legendary Heroes.
San Souci, Robert D.  Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales of Clever Females.
Shepard, Aaron.  The Legend of Slappy Hooper: An American Tall Tale.
Walker, Paul Robert.  Big Men, Big Country: A Collection of American Tall Tales.
Wood, Audrey.  The Bunyans.
Wright, Catherine.  Steamboat Annie and the Thousand-Pound Catfish.