Resources for Brer Rabbit

"Brer Rabbit" is used here as a label for the African-American folktales that feature the adventures of "Brother Rabbit," one of the great tricksters of all time, and his fellow animals. You can get some background about the Brer Rabbit storytelling tradition at Wikipedia. Here are the Brer Rabbit tales at this site:

• The Wolf and the Basket
• The Briar Patch
• Hey, House!
• The Lion and the Hurricane
• Mr. Jack Sparrow
• The Tar Baby
• The Fox and the Well Bucket

Below are some online sources where you can read the stories as collected in the 19th century by Joel Chandler Harris, who invented the character of "Uncle Remus" as the storyteller. I would also highly recommend Julius Lester's retelling of the stories (see bottom of post) - it's marvelous!

• Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings (Project Gutenberg)
• Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation (Project Gutenberg)
• Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit (Project Gutenberg)
• The Tar-Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus (Princeton University, via Hathi)
• Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation (University of Virginia, via Hathi)
• Uncle Remus and His Friends (University of Michigan, via Hathi)
• Uncle Remus and the Little Boy (University of North Carolina, via Hathi)
• Uncle Remus, or Mr. Fox, Mr. Rabbit, and Mr. Terrapin (University of Michigan, via Hathi)
• Uncle Remus Returns (University of Virginia, via Hathi)
• The Works of Joel Chandler Harris in 11 volumes (New York Library, via Hathi)

My own favorite collection of Brer Rabbit stories in book form is this collection by Julius Lester: Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales, with illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Lester retells the stories in a more standard English that is easier to read than the dialect in Harris' books, and he thankfully dispenses with the character of Uncle Remus.