Donald Davis

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

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....

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"....

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

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....

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....

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

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

"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..."

The drive-in is dying....

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

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

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

Meet an earnest first-grader, intent upon convincing his hill-country parents that other children are treated to a party each year on their birthday, that they invite friends, eat cake - and receive presents....