Teacher Resource Booklist

  • Jack Tales: Folk Tales from the Southern Appalachians. Collected and retold by Richard Chase. Houghton Mifflin, 1943.
  • Grandfather Tales. Collected and retold by Richard Chase. Houghton Mifflin, 1948.
  • American Folk Tales and Songs, and Other Examples of English-American Tradition as Preserved in the Appalachian Mountains and Elsewhere in the United States. Compiled by Richard Chase. Dover, 1956.
  • Foxfire 3: Animal Care, Banjos and Dulcimers, Hide Tanning, Summer and Fall Wild Plant Foods, Butter Churns, Ginseng, and Still More Affairs of Plain Living. Edited by Eliot Wigginton. Anchor, 1975.
  • Foxfire Book of Toys and Games: Reminiscences and Instructions from Appalachia. Edited by Linda Garland Page. E. P. Dutton, 1985.
  • Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians. 2nd ed. As sung by Jean Ritchie. University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
  • Homemade Instruments. By Dallas Cline. Oak Publications, 1976.
  • American Folk Songs for Children. By Ruth Crawford Seeger. Doubleday, 1948.
  • Granny Will Your Dog Bite and Other Mountain Rhymes. By Gerald Milnes. Knopf, 1990.
  • Singing Games and Play Party Games. Compiled by Richard Chase. Dover, 1949.
  • Front Porch Old-Time Songs, Jokes & Stories: 48 Great Southern Sing-Along Favorites. By Wayne Erbsen. Native Ground Music, 1993.
  • Whoppers, Tall Tales, and Other Lies. Collected from American folklore by Alvin Schwartz. Lippincott, 1975.
  • Hidden Stories In Plants. By Anne Pellowski. Macmillan, 1990. Musical instruments to make from plants!