Slim and Miss Prim

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Offbeat humor abounds in this exuberantly silly story that proves some people can talk their way out of anything--even without meaning to! Full color.

When rustlers capture the talkative Marigold Prim, her cattle, and her ranch hand, they find her incessant conversation too much to bear and change their plans.

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Overview

Offbeat humor abounds in this exuberantly silly story that proves some people can talk their way out of anything--even without meaning to! Full color.

When rustlers capture the talkative Marigold Prim, her cattle, and her ranch hand, they find her incessant conversation too much to bear and change their plans.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Harris's The Three Little Javelinas watercolor caricatures and the rollicking verse of newcomer Kinerk make mighty fine pardners in this ballad about a patient cowhand named Slim and his boss, the garrulous Miss Marigold Prim: "He mended her fences and herded her cattle/ and listened at length to Marigold's prattle." One day, as Slim rounds up the herd, a band of scruffy rustlers kidnaps him and steals his cattle. As months pass, the feisty yet ladylike Miss Prim rides through county after county in search of her missing employee. But word of her quest reaches the rustler chief, whose men manage to snatch her as well. This lady, however, sure can talk, and her excessive chatter "She lectured on manners, she lectured on crime,/ the importance of keeping appointments on time,/ brushing your teeth after breakfast and dinner,/ the foods you should eat to help you get thinner" finally does the bad guys in. Harris offers some of his funniest work as he shows the properly coiffed Miss Prim pointing a white-gloved finger at the boorish bandits, whose table manners are an object lesson in Don'ts. Though Kinerk's rhythm skips a beat or two every now and then and he serves up some questionable rhymes on/dawn; lot/ought, most of his rhymed couplets will roll right off the tongue. Ages 5-8. Sept.
Children's Literature - Kathleen Kelly
"On a ranch near the mountains a cowboy named Slim/worked for a lady named Marigold Prim." So begins this tale of adventure and love on the open plains. When Slim is kidnapped and his cattle stolen by a bunch of bad guys, Miss Prim sets out to find him. But the bandits capture her as well-and little do they realize what they have gotten into! Miss Prim lectures them soundly on-well, everything, from brushing one's teeth to proper covering of food. Finally the outlaws are so sick of her that they agree to let her as well as Slim and the cattle go. And, of course, Slim finally gets the nerve to propose to Miss Prim, making for a very happy ending. The rhyming text gallops along at a fine pace, marred only by one glaring typo "sox" for "socks". Harris's sprightly watercolors show caricatures in keeping with the comic tone of the story. Though hardly an original tale, this wild west story is executed with style and comic flair.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780873586894
  • Publisher: Rising Moon
  • Publication date: 9/1/1998
  • Pages: 32
  • Age range: 5 - 8 Years
  • Product dimensions: 10.93 (w) x 9.39 (h) x 0.46 (d)

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