This week, the Ozarks Studies Institute has published Ozarks Tales for Children: A Storyteller’s Handbook.

After many years of hard work, adapter Cherri Jones’ anthology of tall tales, animal tales, trickster tales, folktales, and historical tales (as well as Ozarks jokes and games) is now available! Complete with nearly 80 of the best illustrations done by students in Jennifer Grace-Duran’s art classes at the Greenwood Laboratory School, and family-friendly retellings of stories by legends like Vance Randolph, Douglas Mahnkey, Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey, Silas Turnbo, Father Moses Berry, Richard and Judy Dockery Young and more, this collection is sure to delight people of all ages. 

Jones is a retired professor of Library Science. She worked in Missouri State University’s Duane G. Meyer library, in what is now known as Educator Resources on the second floor. She also developed and taught courses including Introduction to Storytelling, Children and Young Adult Storytelling Groups, and Books and Programs for Toddlers. This is her second book. It can be purchased online here (click on “OSI Store” under the Resources tab) or from Elaina Kersey in Meyer Library room LIBR 006A.