You probably know Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Davy Crockett — characters whose larger-than-life stories are part of America’s Old West tall tales. But did you know there are also tall tales about women and that other countries have tall tales, too? Share their enduring stories with kids ages 0-9 in these recommended books about great strength, big adventures, and powerful and steadfast friends! (The EDsitement website has a good lesson on tall tales).
Tanya Lee Stone writes a little bit of everything — science, history, biography, poetry, and fiction — for kids and teens. She’s written middle grades biographies of pioneering women in the NASA space program, Amelia Earhart, and Ella Fitzgerald; picture books about suffragettes and artist Alexander Calder; and a series of books about animal camouflage. She throws herself into her research to provide context for the facts and to make her stories come alive. As Stone herself says, “A book isn’t the end of information on a topic, a book is the beginning of a conversation.”
