Donald Davis

Broken Bones is a double set of double stories. The first set is made up of a story Davis's grandmother told about the time his mother broke her arm - twice....

In rural North Carolina in 1951, despite parental reassurances, a typhoid shot hurt....

Storyteller Donald Davis had a very sensible mother. She had a pretty good idea of what boys would do, so she was always on the lookout....

In Too Much Hair!, Donald Davis focuses on the trouble with little brothers, especially his own....

If you've ever been in the car while a loved one was learning to drive, then think of this as cheap therapy....

When the Southern Bells brought the telephone to rural North Carolina, it looked like a "big black daffodil"....

Traditional values abound in these hilarious stories from Appalachia: friendship, family, orderliness, humor, and delight in an especially inventive practical joke....

Braces hurt. Braces look funny. Braces are downright embarrassing....

The warmth of the Christmas season is condensed into this single collection that will rekindle your Christmas memories....

The drive-in is dying....

If you have never ridden a mule along a 48-inch wide trail whose ledge drops off, in places, 700 feet to the Colorado River, straight down....

"Years later," Donald Davis remember of his childhood," I came to realize that when you come from a long-dammed-up Scots-Irish gene pool..."

An eccentric schoolteacher and a widow-lady babysitter are the heroines in these new digital studio recordings of Donald Davis' two all-time most-requested stories....

Two new Appalachian stories from the author of the award winning Listening for the Crack of Dawn; an ideal introduction to contemporary storytelling for adults....

Here Donald Davis paints verbal portraits of two very different women in his life who shared a fiercely unshakable sense of priorities....

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....

Joe Davis was in his mid-40s when he became a father, and the experience he was able to apply in raising his sons lent creativity to his parenting....

From the heart of the Appalachian Mountains come these folktales and folk rhymes for young children....

Davis revisits the vertigo occasioned by the rides at the county fair, recalls the days when corporal punishment was common, and puzzles over the Belks department-store Santa....

Sibling rivalry. Sometimes, a kid just isn't ready for some little squirt to come along and invade his space, his own room....