{"id":1049,"date":"2018-12-31T15:24:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:24:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:24:47","slug":"texas-reads-archiveglenn-dromgoole-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

9.3.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Author cooks up new endings to fairy tales<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Abilene children\u2019s author Penny Parker Klostermann<\/span> has teamed up with illustrator Ben Mantle<\/span> for another delightful children\u2019s picture book, A Cooked-Up Fairy Tale<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Random House, $17.99 hardcover). Two years ago Klostermann and Mantle produced a hit with There Was an Old Dragon Who Swallowed a Knight.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new story features a young chef named William, who has read a lot of cookbooks but not fairy tales. So when he comes across some apples, some beans, and a pumpkin in a box intended for Fairy Tale Headquarters, he produces baked apples, bean soup, and pumpkin pie and proudly takes them to the Fairy Tale Chief.<\/p>\n

But the fairy tales call for shiny apples (Snow White), raw beans (Jack and the Beanstalk) and a whole pumpkin (Cinderella). Without those items, can these tales live up to their happily-ever-after intentions?<\/p>\n

A Cooked-Up Fairy Tale<\/span> goes on sale nationally Tuesday (Sept. 5). Klostermann will sign books that day from 4\u20136 p.m. at Texas Star Trading Company, 174 Cypress Street in downtown Abilene. To reserve copies, call (325) 672-9696. Read more on the author\u2019s web site, pennyklostermann.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>For all ages:<\/span> A new children\u2019s book, This Is Texas, Y\u2019all! The Lone Star State from A to Z<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Misha Maynerick<\/span> Blaise<\/span> (Lone Star Books, $14.95 hardcover), is informative and entertaining for Texans of all ages. With clever illustrations and brief tidbits of text and pithy quotations, Blaise covers a wide range of Texas topics, going beyond the usual armadillo-barbecue-cowboy entries found in most Texas alphabet books.<\/p>\n

Even native Texans, old or young, will probably find something in this book they did not know about the Lone Star State, such as Midland Minnie (the oldest human skeleton in the Western Hemisphere), or the official state hashtag, or some long-forgotten Dr Pepper slogans, or the location of the world\u2019s smallest active Catholic church.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s the story of a Texas farmer named Uncle Oscar and why his name is celebrated throughout the movie world every year. Fun reading for the whole family.<\/p>\n

Check out Blaise\u2019s other book, This Phenomenal Life,<\/span> on her web site, mishablaise.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Butterfly story:<\/span> Cora Lynn: A Butterfly\u2019s Secret Tale<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Fort Worth teacher and author Jessica Caceres-Davis<\/span> (TCU Press, $14.99 paperback) tells how a butterfly evolves from a tiny egg to caterpillar, chrysalis, and finally a beautiful butterfly soaring into the sky. It\u2019s wonderfully illustrated by Caitlyn Jameson,<\/span> also of Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.3.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Author cooks up new endings to fairy tales Abilene children\u2019s author Penny Parker Klostermann has teamed up with illustrator Ben Mantle for another delightful children\u2019s picture book, A Cooked-Up Fairy Tale (Random House, $17.99 hardcover). Two years ago Klostermann and Mantle produced a hit with There Was an Old Dragon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}