Donald Davis

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....

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....

In "The Time Machine", Davis offers us both the story of the reunion and the collectively remembered story of his classmates' senior year....

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

In rural North Carolina, in 1951, despite parental reassurances, a typhoid shot hurt. It hurt even more when the children saw who would be administering the shot...

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

The warmth of the Christmas season is condensed into this single collection that will rekindle your Christmas memories. Who doesn't remember Christmas at Grandma's?...

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...

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....

When the Southern Bells brought the telephone to rural North Carolina, it looked like a "big black daffodil." What the telephone company had not counted on...

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

The drive-in is dying. People can blame the demise on cable television, luxury theaters with sound systems so technical...

If you have never ridden a mule along a forty-eight-inch wide trail whose ledge drops off, in places, seven hundred feet to the Colorado River...

Braces hurt; braces look funny; braces are downright embarrassing. And just about the time you think they're going to feel normal, it's time to tighten them up again...

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....

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....

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..."

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...