Wiley and the Hairy Man adapted from an American folktale

With his mother's help, Wiley outwits the hairy creature that dominates the swamp near his home by the Tombigbee River.

Main Author:	Bang, Molly.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Macmillan, c1976.
Series:	Ready-to-read Wiley and the Hairy Man.
Subjects:	Folklore > United States > Juvenile nonfiction.

Summary:	With his mother's help, Wiley outwits the hairy creature that dominates the swamp near his home by the Tombigbee River.
Physical Description:	64 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:	0027083705
Author Notes:	Molly Bang was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1943. After college, Bang taught English in Japan. She returned to the U.S and earned her graduate degree in East Asian Languages and Literatures, then worked in India, Bangladesh, and West Africa for Johns Hopkins, Unicef and Harvard. Her first books were translations of folktales, which she also illustrated. Bang has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious Caldecott Honor Book Award three times, for The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, Ten, Nine, Eight and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry. She won the Giverny Award for Best Science Picture Book for Common Ground in 1998. Ten, Nine, Eight also won the ALA Notable Children's Book and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry, won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. It was also an ALA Notable Book and a Jane Addams Children's Honor Book Her titles include Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays, Tiger's Fall, Little Rat Sets Sail, My Light, and Picture This: Perception and Composition. (Bowker Author Biography)