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Tales from a Free-Range Childhood by Davis, Donald is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Tales from a Free-Range Childhood about?

"To hear Donald Davis tell these stories is a delight. To read these stories is an adventure. You are transported not only to his childhood but to yours as well. Each story sparks memories. Donald is a master of finding the story and humor in everyday life and taking you along for a joyful ride."David Holt, four-time Grammy Award-winning storyteller and musician"In his first new book in six years, Donald Davis, considered by many to be the father of family tales, returns to recollections of growing up in the southern Appalachians, and especially of his relationship with his sibling Joe. Davis has remarked that he didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them from a family of traditional storytellers that has lived on the same western North Carolina land since 1781. Among this collection of 18 chronologically arranged stories, Davis explains why 28 second-graders petitioned the school board to reestablish paddling as their preferred form of punishment, instead of the new policy of suspension. He also spins family tales about how his mother was finally convinced to give his brother Joe's naturally curly, wasted-on-a-boy hair its first cut; how he and his cousin Andy got fired from their

Author

Davis, Donald

Publisher

John F. Blair, Publisher

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780895875099

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.91 / 5 (40 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14