Ten-Gallon Bart Beats the Heat
Kindergarten-Grade 3—Bart, the former canine sheriff of Dog City, is off on another adventure. In town, it was "scorching hot,/blistering hot,/tongue hanging-out hot…" so Bart decides to hitch a stagecoach and head north to Alaska. Things are not what he imagined them to be, with bears, moose that make him pull a dogsled, and a snowstorm that buries him up to his ten-gallon hat. His friends in hot Dog City hear of his icy predicament and come to his rescue, taking him home. Bart's cowboy drawl is fun to read aloud, but one might have to explain some of the references to younger children. The detailed, textured-paper illustrations give the art a three-dimensional look and make Bart extra lively.—Carrie Rogers-Whitehead, Kearns Library, UTCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.