Ten-Gallon Bart

by Susan Stevens Crummel, Dorothy Donohue (Illustrator)

Overview

Ten-Gallon Bart has been sheriff of Dog City for seventy dog years and plans to retire…until he hears that Billy the Kid is on the loose and headed for town. Billy is the roughest, toughest, gruffest goat in the country and eats everything in sight. If he reaches Dog City, he will gobble up the whole town! Ten-Gallon Bart must stop him—but he can’t do it alone. With the help of Miss Kitty and the other animals in town, he works up the courage to face the big bully. Dorothy Donohue’s illustrations rendered in textured paper bring this Wild West story about unlikely heroes to a satisfying conclusion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761457190
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	01/05/2012
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	AD450L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Author Susan Stevens Crummel had some firsthand experience before writing Ten-Gallon Bart. As a high school teacher in Texas, one of her extra-curricular duties was sponsoring the rodeo club. Little did she know she’d have to ride a steer in the sponsor’s rodeo. “As I clung to the beast’s gigantic horns, I decided that the following year, I’d go back to coaching the math team!” she said. Susan also likes to tell stories about her great-great uncle Harvey Doyle, an expert rider and trick roper in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in the early 1900s. Besides collaborating with Dorothy Donohue on three other picture books, she has collaborated with her sister, Janet Stevens, on The Great Fuzz Frenzy,The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon, Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!, and Jackalope.

Editorial Reviews

Meet Ten-Gallon Bart, sheriff of Dog City, the most peaceful town in the West, because he's done a bang-up job. But Bart's tired of being brave and bold, he's ready to hang up his star and retire. Then the headline shrieks, "Billy the Kid on the Loose! Headed for Dog City on the Noon Train." Bart rounds up Miss Kitty, Wyatt Burp, Wild Bill Hiccup and Buffalo Gal, who stand behind him (literally) when he meets the train. But the minute Billy the Kid licks his lips and yells, "I'm BAA-AA-AA-D," everyone in town runs for cover except Bart. He faces the big bad goat head-on, but Billy head-butts him out cold and chomps his hat and star. The town comes to Bart's rescue and together they alter Billy's personality. The textured collages corral every bit of Wild West punnery in this laugh-out-loud romp. The large format gives full rein to Donohue's artwork to detail the wild and woolly action and close-ups, personify the animal characters and exaggerate the ten-gallon hatful of humor overall. A quick-draw of quick-witted guffaws, guaranteed to get your goat and make readers grin. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews