Hayes, J. (2016). Grandpa’s hal-la-loo-ya hambone!. El Paso, Texas: Cinco Puntos
Press.
Overview: Interesting and unique story about a hambone that was used over and over again to flavor the beans for Sunday dinner. A tall tale that exaggerates the story of flavoring beans. Grandpa sure likes the flavor and so does the other people in town. Mom shares the hambone with others. Grandpa would get an invite to the dinner the neighbors would make with the hambone. One day Grandpa went to clean up before he went to dinner at a neighbors. His teeth fell into a well. The hambone was used like a worm on a fishing line to catch the teeth. The teeth loved the hambone flavor so much they bit down right on it. Unfortunately when the teeth were pried off the bone the bone fell in the well. From that day forward people fetched their water to boil beans with from the well because of the hambone flavor. Great story to study tall tales.
Level: Middle Grades
Written on reading level - Lexile 790
Genre - Tall Tale - Everybody Book
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