Ten-Gallon Bart and the Wild West Show [School & Library Binding]

Susan Stevens Crummel (Author), Dorothy Donohue (Illustrator)

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From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 3—The former sheriff of Dog City, introduced in Ten-Gallon Bart (Marshall Cavendish, 2006), realizes that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. In fact, he's bored. So when Buffalo Chip's Wild West Show comes to town, he decides to enter the bull-riding contest. The only problem? He has to wake the bull up first. Crummel slips into a Western dialect and setting immediately, making readers want to drawl as they read the story. Listeners will smile at Ten-Gallon Bart's effort to wake the bull, and will laugh out loud at the solution. The illustrations are rich with texture and pattern. Donohue's method of cutting and pasting paper makes the various characters pop out from the backgrounds. The art also lends movement to the scenes of Bart trying to ride the wild (and angry) bull. This story will keep kids cheering for Ten-Gallon Bart, especially when he bests the beast and goes back to retirement…for now.—Susan E. Murray, Glendale Public Library, AZ
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From Booklist

In this sequel to Ten-Gallon Bart (2006), Bart, former sheriff of Dog City, is bored with retirement. Learning that a Wild West show with a bull-riding contest is coming to town, he sees his chance to be a star. When he discovers that the real challenge is to wake the bull, each of his friends offers a suggestion: try “‘Crowin!’ chirped Miss Pixie,” a hen; it’s “the smell of food,” grunts Wyatt Burp, a pig. When the show pulls into town, Bart manages to wake and ride the bull, winning the award, but declines to make a career of it, instead returning to retirement. The textured-paper collage illustrations mostly complement and extend the text, though the characters occasionally become lost in the busy backgrounds and figures, and actions sometimes seem awkward. Children won’t understand the parody of the old television show Gunsmoke or many of the other Wild West references, but the goofy humor will still draw them into Bart’s world, where they’ll find themselves cheering him on in his quest to become a star. Grades K-2. --Randall Enos

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• School & Library Binding: 40 pages
• Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Childrens Books (March 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761453911
• ISBN-13: 978-0761453918
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 11.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,075,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great story, January 23, 2012

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This review is from: Ten-Gallon Bart and the Wild West Show (School & Library Binding)

This story makes my 6 year old laugh out loud. This is a great book for boys and girls of any age.

5.0 out of 5 stars Can he wake up enough to become famous?, September 7, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ten-Gallon Bart and the Wild West Show (School & Library Binding)

Susan Stevens Crummel's TEN-GALLON BART AND THE WILD WEST SHOW receives Dorothy Donohue's large-sized full-page drawings as it covers one Bart, bored until Buffalo Chip's Wild West Show rolls into town. He's sure he can win the bull-riding contest and become the show's star - but he has to ride the insane Crazy Bull to do so AND he struggles with laziness. Can he wake up enough to become famous?