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8) Drummer Hoff
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Description
A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.
12) Norse mythology
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Having already appropriated Odin and Loki for his novel American Gods, Gaiman turns his restless imagination to a retelling of Norse folklore (a youthful interest of his). He begins by introducing us to the three main mythological figures: Odin, the highest and oldest of the gods; his son, Thor, who makes up in brawn what he lacks in brains; and Loki, offspring of giants and a wily trickster. In a series of stories, we learn how Thor acquired his...
15) This is the day!
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Presents an expanded version of a folk song in which babies are given away as premiums with the purchase of different items each day of the week.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see myself in others." Like Dylan's songs, this book is a work...
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Description
Everyone knows the song about the old lady who swallowed a fly, a spider, a bird, and even worse, but who's ever seen what's going on inside the old lady's stomach? With this inventive die-cut artwork, Simms Tabak gives us a rollicking, eye-popping version of the well-loved poem.
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