Resource: Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales

Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales

Author: Kirstin Congdon
Illustrator: Kitty Kitson Petterson
Year: 2001
Location: personal library

Table of Contents:

Telling Traditional Tales in Florida

How Things Came to Be the Way They Are
Why Men And Women Don't Have Tails Like Cows
How The Gopher Turtle Was Made
How Florida Got That Way
Cape Sable Cats
The Alligator And The Eagle
Buzzard Roost
Why The Rabbit Is Wild Today
Stolen Fire
The Legend Of The Moss

People With Special Powers
Uncle Monday
How To Handle A Rattlesnake
Old Pete
Railroad Bill
Bone Mizell And His Teeth
Bone Mizell And The Circus
Acrefoot Johnson
The Turkey Maiden

Food, Friends, And Family
Kerosene Charley And The Potatoes
The Little Boy And The "ayayay"
Grandpa And The Panther
Sister's Milkcow
Cutting A Pumpkin
Homer And The Bear
The Shoemaker And The King
The Preacher And The Ducks
Aunt Hazel
The Cucarachita Martinez
The Bunny Rabbit
Uncle Luke

Unusual Places, Spaces, And Events
My First Job
The Man And The Beanstalk
Diddy-Wah-Diddy
Old Frostysides
Raising Popcorn
Big John Gives Old Master A Sign
Quevedo On French Soil
Quevedo Chooses To Die Of Old Age
The Tiny Little Chicken
The Fig Tree
Daddy Mention's Escape

Ghosts And The Supernatural
The St. Andrews Bay Legend
The Witch
Hugging Molly
Mystic Music Of The Manatees
Five-Mile Bank
The Armored Ghost
The Woman Who Fed Her Husband A Leg Which She Dug Up From A Cemetery
A Ghost Story About An Aunt
A Christmas Ghost Story