Joe Hayes

• Oct-1993
• / General Fiction
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A Native American legend tells how Sky God helped Rattlesnake to defend himself.Ages 4-8...

• Mar-1996
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• Oct-1996
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• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction
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Ages 4-8. Hayes, a veteran folklorist, offers an engaging telling of Cinderella that is popular in the mountain communities of New Mexico. There are some significant variations that add depth to the story, making it in many ways more interesting than...

• Nov-2001
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2003
• / Fantasy
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Kids of all ages are always asking Joe Hayes, "How can it snow tortillas?" Well, now they'll know where to find the answer-at long last, Joe's signature book The Day It Snowed Tortillas is appearing in this new bilingual edition...

• Sep-2004
• / General Fiction
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La Llorona (yoh-RROH-nah) / The Weeping Woman is the ghost story to end all ghost stories, capturing the minds of both kids and adults in the U.S. and Mexico. In Spanish and English, master storyteller JOE HAYES retells the tale of a beautiful wo...

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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Respected raconteur Joe Hayes is built for tall tales -- he’s got the world’s longest legs! And Joe -- who travels all over the United States telling stories to kids -- says that The Gum-Chewing Rattler is the perfect tall tale for kids be...

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
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"With a style that captures the rhythmic pulse of the Cuban way of life, the vibrant storytelling in this collection of tales by Joe Hayes will delight Spanish-speaking and English-speaking children alike. The accurate translation builds familiari...

• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction
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What happens when an old dog sitting at the dinner table with his master slides a whole leg of lamb, a big bowl of posole, a stack of tortillas and a bottle of wine to a coyote, who just happens to be under the table? A whole ruckus, that's what!<...

• Dec-2012
• / General Fiction
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Mamá says she has the best daughters in the world. The two women live near their mother -- Rosa with her husband and children, Blanca by herself. They both have flourishing gardens. Rosa and Blanca are so generous and kind and thoughtful -- well,...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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In his classic bilingual style, Joe tells the story of a haunted house in a poor little town in Arizona. Nobody will rent that house because they know a ghost lives there. So the landlord tries to rents it out for free. Still nobody will rent it....

• Mar-2014
• / Action Adventure
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Joe Hayes is back with another unbelievable, astounding, and totally true tall tale, straight from his own childhood in the Arizona desert.

One day little Joe is out in the desert, walking around, and he sees a rattlesnake in trouble. Joe sa...

• Sep-2016
• / Action Adventure
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Kids today grow up knowing all about recycling. But when Joe Hayes was a kid, recycling hadn't been invented. Money was so tight for his family that they had to be inventive about reusing everything. And when the family splurged for a fat hambone to ...

• Dec-2017
• / General Fiction
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Kids today grow up knowing all about recycling. But when Joe Hayes was a kid, recycling hadn't been invented. Money was so tight for his family that they had to be inventive about reusing everything. And when the family splurged for a fat hambone to ...

• Jun-2018
• / General Fiction
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A bilingual collection of humorous trickster tales, in which women pit their formidable intelligence to outwit villains, husbands, brothers, fathers, and sweethearts. From the kind woman who tricked two men who thought they had robbed her of a ham to...

• Apr-2019
• / General Fiction
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There is nothing like a river trip, but is that enough? Out on the Left Coast,  a rising tide of wealth generated by the 1999 Silicon Bubble is floating all boats, but swamping Harper Purcell, a groundwater geologist and Grand Canyon river guide....