Uncle Remus

by Joel Chandler Harris

Overview

In Uncle Remus Joel Harris has in the folklore scenes tried to preserve the legends themselves in their original simplicity and to preserve the southern dialect. The stories have the genuine flavor of the old plantation. Uncle Remus is known for his wit and wisdom. His songs and saying have delighted children for generations. "How the Animals Came to Earth," "Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby," and "Brer Rabbit Tricks Brer Bear" are some of his more well-known tales. This book includes legends, songs and sayings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438526591
Publisher:	Book Jungle
Publication date:	10/08/2009
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.44(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Joel Chandler Harris (1848 - 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880-1889), stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process. James Weldon Johnson called the Uncle Remus collection "the greatest body of folklore America has produced."

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Author, Teller, and Hero	7
	Suggestions for Further Reading	33
	A Note on the Text	35
	Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings	37