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Tex & Sugar: A Big City Kitty Ditty
Meet two delightful country-crooning cats who will have kids singing their praises: Tex Mex Rex and Sugar Lee Snughead. Both kitties have left their small towns and come to the big city in search of fame and fortune on the stage. And why not? Tex’s tunes “could put smiles on fields full of cattle,” while Sugar’s voice “called as sweetly as catbirds in June.”
But city life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be—until Tex and Sugar find each other…and discover what beautiful music they make together. Like the best country songs, Tex & Sugar is funny, touching, and carries a great message: Believe in Dreams, Darlin’, You Know They’ll Find You.
But city life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be—until Tex and Sugar find each other…and discover what beautiful music they make together. Like the best country songs, Tex & Sugar is funny, touching, and carries a great message: Believe in Dreams, Darlin’, You Know They’ll Find You.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2007
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Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
April 16, 2012
As Read by Red Poetguy
Here’s a tale of love found in the big city,
Two country cats, one rugged and one pretty.
They both went to seek out their fame,
But each other they found, and it was a little lame.
The grey one had testicles, and he plucked guitar.
The orange one sang sweetly and looked good from afar.
Tex the male ended up washing dishes,
Sugar the fem was a female cat... probably liked to eat fishes...
The cats started singing out of desperation,
So sad were they that they looked for... um.. inspiration.
I started singing, much like these little kitties,
But all I could find were a bunch of pitties.
That last rhyme was lame, much like the rest,
I’m out of ideas, I’m doing my best.
Stop staring at me like that, I don’t need your crap.
You try to make up a dumb rhyme about a book about two singing cats that fall in love after failing at their dreams cause alone their dreams were worthless but together they work out and that’s frickin beautiful but you are just a crappy poet alone in your room in your tighty whities staring at a computer screen trying to come up with a dumb poem because some library jackass asked you to review a children’s book and you thought “Hey that’s a way to get exposure for your poetry” but when you start writing all you have is just junk that’s not fit for basic human consumption. Man, I hate this. Oh, yeah... a rhyme... wrap?
I dunno. Merry Christmas.
Here’s a tale of love found in the big city,
Two country cats, one rugged and one pretty.
They both went to seek out their fame,
But each other they found, and it was a little lame.
The grey one had testicles, and he plucked guitar.
The orange one sang sweetly and looked good from afar.
Tex the male ended up washing dishes,
Sugar the fem was a female cat... probably liked to eat fishes...
The cats started singing out of desperation,
So sad were they that they looked for... um.. inspiration.
I started singing, much like these little kitties,
But all I could find were a bunch of pitties.
That last rhyme was lame, much like the rest,
I’m out of ideas, I’m doing my best.
Stop staring at me like that, I don’t need your crap.
You try to make up a dumb rhyme about a book about two singing cats that fall in love after failing at their dreams cause alone their dreams were worthless but together they work out and that’s frickin beautiful but you are just a crappy poet alone in your room in your tighty whities staring at a computer screen trying to come up with a dumb poem because some library jackass asked you to review a children’s book and you thought “Hey that’s a way to get exposure for your poetry” but when you start writing all you have is just junk that’s not fit for basic human consumption. Man, I hate this. Oh, yeah... a rhyme... wrap?
I dunno. Merry Christmas.
November 22, 2007
Great message about following your heart! Thankfully, this message is well integrated into a clever, gorgeously illustrated story. Every time I open it I find new things to look at- I love the subway scene, and the dog version of Nathan Lane at the auditions!
April 14, 2009
I'm looking for some great cat books for Aerie's Time Cat book club party. I read this tonight at the bookstore. I think if I liked country music more I would have loved this book. A very cute story, bold and clever illustrations, a good message.
September 9, 2007
Loved it. Read it again and again.
November 17, 2007
Great text and pictures. I am looking forward to trying this one out with older kids.
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February 10, 2008for older kids. story of two kitties hungry for fame in nyc who find each other.
July 14, 2008
catchy.
November 21, 2008
What a hoot of a book! Funny characters, strong verse and Barbara Newman's vivid illustrations bringing the story to life. A must-have for readers who love cowboys and westerns.
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