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Roger Welsch - Why I´m an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales - 9780803284289 - V9780803284289
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Why I´m an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales

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Description for Why I´m an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales paperback. One day Roger Welsch ventured to ask his father a delicate personal question: "Why am I an only child?" His father's answer is one of many examples of the delightful and laughter-inducing ribald tales Welsch has compiled from a lifetime of listening to and sharing the folklore of the Plains. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
2017 Nebraska Book Award Nonfiction: Folklore

One day Roger Welsch ventured to ask his father a delicate personal question: “Why am I an only child?” His father’s answer is one of many examples of the delightful and laughter-inducing ribald tales Welsch has compiled from a lifetime of listening to and sharing the folklore of the Plains. More narrative than simple jokes, and the product of multiple retellings, these coarse tales were even delivered by such prudish sources as Welsch’s stern and fearsome German great-aunts. Speaking of cucumbers and sausages in a toast to a newly married couple, the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803284289
SKU
V9780803284289
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Ref
99-1

About Roger Welsch
Roger Welsch is a retired professor of English and anthropology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a former essayist for CBS News Sunday Morning. He is the author of more than forty books, including A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore (Nebraska, 1966), My Nebraska: The Good, the Bad, and the Husker (Nebraska, 2011), and most recently, The Reluctant Pilgrim: A ... Read more

Reviews for Why I´m an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales
"Very, very funny."—Julie Henigan, Journal of Folklore Research "As a playfully analytical look at our human penchant for the "slightly naughty" this one, like all Welsch's other collections of Plains stories, is a delight."—Nancy S. Gillis, Nebraska History "Roger Welsch is a superb writer and folklorist for the same reasons that he was a superb classroom teacher in our German ... Read more

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