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Stories by Donald Davis

Books & CDs by Donald Davis
Donald Davis
Donald Davis grew up in a family of traditional storytellers who have lived on the same North Carolina land since 1781. After twenty years' service as a United Methodist minister, Davis became a full-time storyteller, now giving more than three hundred performances a year. He calls Ocracoke Island home. He has served as guest host of American Public Radio's "Good Evening," and appeared on CNN and "Nightline." He is author of several books and numerous storytelling CDs.

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CDs:
A Room Of My Own Going To Grandma's Mama Learns To Drive
Christmas at Grandma's Grand Canyon Miss Daisy
Dr. York Grandma's Lap Stories That's What Mamas Do
Father Was A Wise Old Man It's All About Cats From Black and White to Living In Color
Friends Come Back Listening for the Crack of Dawn Live from Fearrington Village
Party People The Time Machine Irrational Fear
Broken Bones Too Much Hair!

HARDBACK BOOKS:

Don't Kill Santa The Pig Who Went Home on Sunday

PAPERBACK BOOKS:
Barking At A Fox-Fur Coat Ride The Butterflies Telling Your Own Stories
Tales from a Free-Range Childhood See Rock City Writing as a Second Language
Listening For The Crack Of Dawn  Southern Jack Tales The Pig Who Went Home on Sunday


CDs by Donald Davis:


Broken Bones
Broken Bones
Broken Bones (one CD for all ages) Broken Bones is a double set of stories.  The first set is made up of a story Davis's grandmother told about the time his mother broke her arm -twice!  The second story in the first set is about how his little brother's collarbone was broken-twice!  It is about how trouble is genetic in families. The second set of stories follows up on his neighbors the Leatherwoods and shows what happens when two big brothers team up against two little brothers.  It also shows that fathers are always smarter than their sons!    Contents: "Intro music,"  "Broken Bones,"  "The Last Spanking I Never Got," & "Portsmouth Homecoming."
Item No: AUG044
Qty:Price: $14.95

Too Much Hair!
Too Much Hair
Too Much Hair! (one CD for all ages) In Too Much Hair!, Davis focuses on the trouble with little brothers, especially his own. In the title story, he gives his little brother the haircut he badly needs.  The next story tells how he came to be permanently fired as his brother's babysitter.  The third tale recounts one of the many science projects for which his brother served as Davis's personal chemistry set.  These stories call forth memories from anyone who had to live in relationship to siblings.  Contents: "Intro music,"  "Too Much Hair!,"  "Watch the Baby,"  "Don't Step in Anyting" & "March of the Nefarious Glib."
Item No: AUG045
Qty:Price: $16.95

Irrational Fear
Irrational Fear
Irrational Fear (one CD for all ages)We will always have our personal phobias and white-knuckle moments.  The title story of Irrational Fear  tells of Davis's mother's fear of snakes and the way she eventually got even with him for making fun of her. (She always came out on top.)  The second story, "The Red Coat," tells why his father and his father's brothers-in-law finally stopped playing Christmas tricks on their sisters and wives.  Another hilarious send-up from one of America's favorite storytellers.  Contents: "Intro music,"  "Irrational Fear,"  "The Red Coat,"  & "Binkey's First Move."
Item No: AUG046
Qty:Price: $16.95


Party People
Party People
Party People (one CD for all ages) Some folks just prefer to stay home.  You know them-whole families who politely decline invitations because they don't spend money on fancy clothes, don't care for "small talk."  And they certainly don't dance. They are just not "party people."    Contents: "Party People,"  "The Little Rat," & "Putter Brown's Old Leather Waltz."
Item No: AUG041
Qty:Price: $16.95

The Time Machine
The Time Machine
The Time Machine (one CD for all ages) When Donald Davis walked into his 45th high-school reunion, he had two startling visions.  The first was that the only signage he saw read, WELCOME HARLEY RIDERS.  After discovering that he and his classmates would be sharing space with the bikers, Davis had his second surprise: "I was amazed to see how many parents had come."    Contents: "The Time Machine,"  "The New Car," & "Star of County Down."
Item No: AUG042
Qty:Price: $16.95

From Black and White to Living In Color
From Black and White to Living In Color
From Black and White to Living In Color (one CD for all ages) There was a time during Donald Davis's college freshman year when he wasn't really sure if he wanted to claim his hometown of Sulpher Springs, North Carolina.  But a boy by the name Stanley Easter changed his mind.  Contents: "Stanley Easter," & "Farther Along."
Item No: AUG040
Qty:Price: $16.95

Live from Fearrington Village
Live from Fearrington Village
Live from Fearrington Village (one CD for all ages) Since 1992, Donald Davis has performed during the Christmas season at Fearrington Village, a unique destination community near Chapel Hill, NC.  This CD, recorded live at his Dec. 15, 2007 performance, captures the familiar and special relationship between a skilled and beloved storyteller and the audience that has sustained him year after year.  Contents: "The Octopus," "Look It Up!," " The Red Scooter."
Item No: AUG041
Qty:Price: $16.95

It's All About Cats
It's All About Cats
It's All About Cats (one CD for all ages) We all know someone like them: women whose lives revolve around their cats. Here Donald Davis paints verbal portraits of two very different women in his life who shared a fiercely unshakable sense of priorities.  Contents: "Irma," & "Miss Morton."
Item No: AUG039
Qty:Price: $16.95

A Room Of My Own
A Room of My Own
A Room Of My Own (one CD for all ages) Sibling rivalry.  Sometimes, a kid just isn't ready for some little squirt to come along and invade his space -- his own room.  But a big brother, even if not so very big, can have a lot to offer -- once he gets used to the idea.  Contents:  "A Room of My Own," &  "Talking With the Lights On."
Item No: AUG033
Qty:Price: $14.95


Friends Come Back
Friends Come Back
Friends Come Back (one CD for all ages) The best friend of our youth has no replacement -- ever.  In this tale of two adults who reclaim their childhood bond after thirty years apart, the comforts of friendship are affirmed with humor and wit.  Contents:  "Friends Come Back," &  "How I  Became an English Major...or, The Frog Jumped Twice."
Item No: AUG034
Qty:Price: $14.95


Going To Grandma's
Going to Grandma's
Going To Grandma's (one CD for all ages) Old Man Hawkins was a larger-than-life character among deer hunters, or more precisely, among tellers and hearers of tall tales.  This is an engaging story that Davis heard his father tell often on the drive "to Grandma's house."  Also included are two traditional "Jack Tales." Contents:  "Going to Grandma's," "Jack and the Soap," &  "The Time Jack Lost His Wishes."
Item No: AUG035
Qty:Price: $14.95


Mama Learns To Drive
Mama Learns to Drive
Mama Learns To Drive (one CD for all ages) Donald Davis recalls his mother's driving lessons through the objective eye of a patient and restrained young man of seven, in contrast with his little brother, whose oft-shouted refrain, "You're going to kill us all!" rings still in memory.  Contents:  "Mama Learns To Drive," "Aunt Esther Saves a Little boy's Life," "Peas & Carrots," &  "Doobies."
Item No: AUG036
Qty:Price: $16.95


Father Was a Wise Old Man
Father Was a Wise Old Man CD

Father was a Wise Old Man (one CD for all ages) This cycle of stories is about Davis' father--a man already in his mid forties when Donald was born--a man rooted in place, sustained by a deep ethical foundation, and gifted with delicacy in handling the psyche of a growing boy.
Item No: AUG028
Qty:Price: $16.95


That's What Mamas Do
That's What Mamas Do CD
That's What Mamas Do (one CD for all ages) As Davis learned, always being on the lookout is what mamas do.  His vigilant and gentle mother gave her son multiple gifts in life, and--as we learn in the end--gifts that do not end with her passing, at a ripe old age.
Item No: AUG030
Qty:Price: $14.95


The Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon (one CD for ages 10 to adult) The beauty, grandeur--and, yes, horror--of the Grand Canyon magnified through the lenses of Donald Davis' humor.  Side One: "The Grand Canyon," Side Two: "Getting Scared at Grandma's House." 
Item No: AUG024
Qty:Price: $16.95


Listening for the Crack of Dawn
Listening for the Crack of Dawn
Listening for the Crack of Dawn (two CDs for ages 11 to adult) A master storyteller recalls the Appalachia of the 1950's.  Side One: "Aunt Laura and the Crack of Dawn," Side Two: "The Last Butler in Sulfur Springs," Side Three: "LS/MFT," Side Four: "A different Drummer."
Item No: AUG021
Qty:Price: $20.00


Miss Daisy
Miss Daisy
Miss Daisy (one CD for adults and young adults) An eccentric schoolteacher and a widow-lady baby-sitter are the heroines in these new digital studio recordings of Donald Davis's two all-time most requested stories.  Side One: "Miss Daisy," Side Two: "Miss Annie."
Item No: AUG013
Qty:Price: $16.95


Grandma's Lap Stories
Grandma's Lap Stories
Grandma's Lap Stories (one CD for ages 3 to 7) From the heart of the Appalachian Mountains come these folk tales and folk rhymes for young children, the same tales Davis's grandmother told him as he sat in her lap so many years ago. Six stories on one tape.
Item No: AUG016
Qty:Price: $14.95



Christmas at Grandma's
Christmas at Grandma's
Christmas at Grandma's (one CD for all ages).  Who doesn't remember the holiday sights and sounds and smells of Grandma's house?  The living room aglow with a tree that touches the ceiling, the clatter of silverware and kitchen pans, the banter of relatives, and especially Grandma's bright face---- Donald Davis captures these memories and more and relays them through the eyes of a child
Item No: AUG040
Qty:Price: $14.95



Dr. York, Miss Winnie and the Typhoid Shot
Typhoid Shot
Dr. York, Miss Winnie and the Typhoid Shot (one CD for all ages).  In rural North Carolina, in 1951 despite parental reassurances, a typhoid shot hurt.  It hurt even more when you saw who would be administering the shot---Miss Winnie, a large dictatorial nurse who had been  "especially built by the nursing school so she would never blow away in a hard wind."  In this hilarious epic tale, our young hero learns three valuable lessons: avoiding pain only heightens it; a mother's wrath can hurt worse than a shot; and growing up sometimes involves choosing the lesser of two evils.
Item No: AUG038
Qty:Price: $16.95

Books by Donald Davis:

Ride The Butterflies
Ride the Butterflies

Ride The Butterflies (paperback book, 94 pages) Davis awakens the schoolchild in every reader with this collection of school stories from his performance repertory.
Item No: AUG025
Qty:Price: $4.95


Southern Jack Tales
Southern Jack Tales

Southern Jack Tales  (paperback book) A collection of 13 traditional stories about Jack from the southern mountain areas.
Item No: AUG004
Qty:Price: $12.95

Barking at a Fox-Fur Coat
Barking at a Fox Fur Coat
Barking at a Fox-Fur Coat (paperback book, 206 pages) A collection of 17 delightful and humorous stories from one of America's most beloved storytellers.
Item No: AUG003
Qty:Price: $12.95


Listening for the Crack of Dawn
Listening For the Crack of Dawn
Listening for the Crack of Dawn  (paperback book) A delightful collection of some of Davis's best loved stories about growing up in rural North Carolina.
Item No: AUG002
Qty:Price: $14.95


See Rock City
See Rock City
See Rock City  (paperback book) A selection of over a dozen more stories about growing up in the Southern Appalachians.
Item No: AUG006
Qty:Price: $12.95


Telling Your Own Stories
Telling Your Own Stories
Telling Your Own Stories  (paperback book, 127 pages) A "how-to" book for family and classroom storytelling, public speaking and personal journalizing.
Item No: AUG005
Qty:Price: $10.00


Writing as a Second Language
Writing as a Second Language
Writing as a Second Language (paperback book, 139 pages) This book instructs the reader to view writing not as an unnavigable foreign language but as a working second language.
Item No: AUG037
Qty:Price: $13.95


Tales from a Free-Range Childhood
Tales from a Free-Range Childhood

Tales from a Free-Range Childhood (paperback book, 239 pages) In his first new book in six years, renowned storyteller Donald Davis returns to his recollections of growing up in the southern Appalachians. 
Item No: AUG047
Qty:Price: $12.95

The Pig Who Went Home on Sunday  (paperback book)
The Pig Who Went Home on Sunday
The Pig Who Went Home on Sunday  (paperback book) A picturebook rendition of an Appalachian folktale that adds a home grown twist to the well-known story of "The Three Little Pigs".
Item No: AUG022
Qty:Price: $7.95


Don't Kill Santa!
Don't Kill Santa

Don't Kill Santa! (hardback book) Donald Davis knows that the holidays you remember aren't the ones where everything goes as expected; instead, you remember the ones that being an element of surprise-- if not outright disaster. 
Item No: AUG053
Qty:Price: $14.95


The Pig Who Went Home on Sunday (hardback book)
The Pig Who Went Home on Sunday

The Pig Who Went Home on Sunday  (hardback book) A picturebook rendition of an Appalachian folktale that adds a home grown twist to the well-known story of "The Three Little Pigs".
Item No: AUG054
Qty:Price: $16.95

 

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