OSI publishes book of local children’s folktales
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…