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This book includes Three Western tales,
Complete with Sheriff, Hard as nails,
A Lonesome Cowboy, Thief, and Horse,
Conniption fits, Despair, remorse;
Two broken hearts, Miss Lou-Lou, and
Miss Lou-Lou's paw,
A snake-oil man;
A Dreadful Stranger Bustin' in,
A duel that smells
As vile as sin,
At Gizzard's Grill.
And for dessert
A slab of lemon pie Don't hurt.
评论 (4)
《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 3-6-The Old West surfaces again in three light, verse tales from the cow town of Fiasco. Rhyming quatrains recount the adventures of a stable full of stock Western characters: a deceptively hard-boiled Law-woman ("I seem a tough old sheriff,/Two-fisted, coarse, and hard;/But beneath it all-you guessed it, boys-I'm soft as melted lard"); a lonesome cowboy; a repentant horse thief; a father/daughter traveling medicine show; a heartbroken waitress; and a stranger who loses a stinky-foot duel to ancient Myrna Poke. The tall-tale elements and gentle, preposterously tidy conclusions provide some of the fun. It's the language, however, that lends the most zip. Colorful cowpoke turns of phrase pepper the text, reinforcing character types and spicing up somewhat meandering story lines. Laid out cleanly on white pages, the text is frequently accompanied by pencil line drawings in a vaguely post-modern cartoon style. Spare, with intriguing features such as dashed lines indicating motion and direction, the art-in a sandy beige and orange desert palette-cannily incorporates details from the narrative. The slightly grotesque, long-headed figures and minimalist style heighten the silliness and tall-tale effects. A fun read-aloud, if your drawl's in working order, but not a must purchase.-Nancy Palmer, The Little School, Bellevue, WA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
This mock-epic Western, told in rhyming text as long as the noonday sun is high, chronicles events in the dusty town of Fiasco. In three tales, loners amble into the local hangout, Gizzard's Grill, and forge unlikely friendships. "The Lonesome Cowboy" tells how a mustachioed stranger unnerves the Sheriff, a fierce woman known by her six-shooter and scarlet ten-gallon hat. "You see this badge I'm wearin'?/ It ain't just foofaraw./ For in old Fiasco town, my boy,/ I represent the Law," she warns. But the newcomer gains her respect by baking biscuits and nabbing a horse thief, who turns out to be a nice guy, too. "Miss Lou-Lou" introduces a snake-oil salesman and his daughter, who's an ace with the dowsing rod when the well goes dry. "The Duel" presents a smelly feller who enters the Grill with a roar ("he sounded wild as ten wet cats") and challenges the townsfolk to a stinky-feet contest. Turner (Otto's Trunk) provides technical line drawings in pencil against sun-baked, sandstone-colored backgrounds. His brainy but remote cartoons complement the text's peculiarity but convey little warmth. Steig (A Gift from Zeus) composes drawling, quirky four-line stanzas, recalling both the Ancient Mariner and the Jabberwock. She experiments with storytelling style, but unfortunately the meandering verses and uninviting visuals may test readers' patience. All ages. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
(Primary, Intermediate) Steig takes a gentle cowpoke at the conventions of cowboy poetry with these three tales from Gizzard's Grill, the center of the action in the small dusty town of Fiasco. The first tale rustles up some horse thieving, the second tracks the fate of a motherless child, and the third involves a kind of duel: ""Point blank their feet were aimin' / Right at each other's nose, / And they yowled and gasped and each turned green, / And blue, and puce, and rose."" Thus begins the competition between Miss Myrna Poke and the boastful stranger who, like all the visitors to Fiasco, finds there a home and a use for his, er, talent (he and Miss Myrna plan to put their stinky feet to work in an exterminating business). The rhymes are clever and read aloud well, and Steig wisely allows the stories to govern the wordplay rather than the other way around. Turner's long-lined pencil and watercolor illustrations are loopily droll and expertly caricatured, their brown pencil and parched colors setting the scene and tone precisely. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus评论
In three rhymed Old West tales, Steig casts a tough-talking but motherly Sheriff and a crew of wanderers who settle into unlikely occupations. First, to the town of Fiasco come a Lonesome Cowboy and a repentant horse thief, who open a bakery together. Then a patent medicine salesman turns resident music teacher after his daughter dowses a new well for the stricken town. And in the wake of a stinky foot duel--"Point blank their feet were aimin', / Right at each other's nose, / And they yowled and gasped and each turned green, / And blue, and puce, and rose"--a blustering stranger pairs off with a (perhaps literally) crusty old lady as town exterminators. Steig's previous titles carried her late husband's distinctive illustrations; here, she's found an apt successor in Turner, who presents oddball, minimalist sketches of figures with character-actor faces beneath big, colorful hats, against beige backgrounds. The smelly-foot trope is a perennial crowd-pleaser, but adults may be won over more easily than child readers by these ballads. (Poetry. 8+) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.