Ten-Gallon Bart
Published on 15. March 2006
Book
Hardback
32 pages
978-0-7614-5246-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From First Grade to Third Grade
ISBN-13
978-0-7614-5246-1 (9780761452461)
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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.