I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago: A Tall Tale

By Steven Kellogg

Book Overview

Who told the best tall tales of all time? This exuberant book, based on a nineteenth-century American folk song, provides more than a clue. After all, there aren't many yarn spinners who could lay claim to building the Pharaoh's pyramids, marrying Queen Elizabeth in Milwaukee, driving cattle from Texas to Seattle with the great Pecos Bill, or playing hopscotch on the moon. In fact, this tale is so irresistibly tall that when you're through, you just may want to top it with a few whoppers of your own. Steven Kellogg has combined the traditional stanzas with his own rib-tickling verse and sparkling illustrations. Complete with the easily played melody, this is a tale that will delight readers for about a million years ... or maybe two! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688134114
• ISBN13: 9780688134112
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Morrow Junior Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Great tool for teaching and writing tall tales

I'm a third grade teacher and I've been reading Steven Kellogg's tall tales to my class throughout the school year. My class absolutely loves his books and recently I read "I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago" as a way to get my kids to write their own tall tales. This book, unlike other tall tales, isn't about one exaggerated hero, but about five kids who my class can relate to. It made the tall tales more accessable and more...

10,000 smiles for 10,000 years.

My children and I thoroughly enjoyed the whimsical adventure through time that this beautifully illustrated book took them on. Steven Kellogg does a marvelous job of retelling this tall tale by using rhyming text. Combined with pieces of history, references to stories in the bible, and adding bits from other known tall tales, this book is one wild and crazy adventure after another. This book encourages children to want...