Sandspun: Florida Tales by Florida Tellers

Book Overview

Folktales teach, inform, and heal. Most of all, they entertain. Here's a collection of tales rich with homespun humor, charm, and wisdom--all told with flair by some of Florida's best and most sought-after storytellers. Their stories will make you feel part of the great "family" that is Florida. If it's spooky ghost stories you crave, let "The Silent Customer," "Kissimmee Bound," and "The Ghost Dog of the Biltmore" chill your spine. Heed the Cracker...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561642436
• ISBN13: 9781561642434
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Pineapple Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Sandspun is a Treasure Chest of Florida Folklore

The newest anthology of Florida tales by the best of Flordia storytellers is a delight to read, not only entertaining but educational. There is humor in tales like Three Little Cracker Pigs, ghost stories like Ghost Dog of the Biltmore, personal stories like Three Little Words, Urban legends like the Silent Customer, pour quois tales like The Tale of Rabbit's Tail. What I like about reading anthologies is I get a taste of many authors and if I have only a few minutes, like waiting at a doctor's office or business, I can get an entire story read.These stories are so good you'll want to read them over and over, tell them in your own words to your children and grandchildren, or over coffee. Annette Bruce and Stephen Brooks, both storytellers have selected storytellers from Miami to the Panhandle. Every library should have a copy. Storytellers, media specialists and public speakers can make good use of stories from Sandspun. An added delight is the cover art of a Florida great white heron against mangrove swamp bordered by a Seminole Indian motif.