Tomie dePaola's Front Porch Tales & North Country Whoppers (Hardcover)

from cfranson

Many of these New Hampshire and Vermont stories are hilarious. DePaola narrated the stories in such a voice that sets your imagination going. They are set in the four seasons of the year and at the end of each season there is a comic that deals with the silly things that tourists say while they g...

from BrittaSorensen

(I used this book for the Traditional Literature assignment.) This is a collection of short stories set in Vermont. These books use language and dialogue wonderfully. This would be a great book to use with kids to model how to make dialogue that sounds like real speech. It would also be a great b...

from justineaylward

Very funny! Written in the dialect of a New Englander. I liked the story about the mud season. It has a little cartoon of tourists that runs through it between tales.

from justineaylward

Very funny! Written in the dialect of a New Englander. I liked the story about the mud season. It has a little cartoon of tourists that runs through it between tales.