{"id":1351,"date":"2018-12-31T16:49:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2018-12-31T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:49:42","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

6.17.2018\u00a0 Texas children\u2019s author David Davis was a friend<\/h1>\n

I\u2019m sad to report that David Davis,<\/span> one of my favorite Texas children\u2019s authors and a good friend, died on May 24. He wrote children\u2019s books that adults probably enjoyed and understood more than the children they read them to.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span>Among his titles: Texas Mother Goose, Ten Redneck Babies, Redneck Night Before Christmas, Librarian\u2019s Night Before Christmas, Texas Zeke and the Longhorn,<\/span> and The Twelve Days of Christmas\u2014in Texas, That Is.<\/span> Most of his books are still in print.<\/p>\n

Here are two of my favorites from Texas Mother Goose,<\/span> which Carlton Stowers<\/span> and I included in our selection of 101 Essential Texas Books<\/span> a few years ago.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Breakfast with Humpty Dumpty<\/p>\n

\u00a0Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall<\/p>\n

\u00a0Humpty Dumpty had a great fall<\/p>\n

\u00a0All the ranch cowboys and all the vaqueros<\/p>\n

\u00a0Got a big breakfast of huevos rancheros.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Three Blind Mice<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Three blind mice,<\/p>\n

\u00a0See how they run!<\/p>\n

\u00a0They ran for Senate up Austin way,<\/p>\n

\u00a0Since they\u2019re blind it\u2019s the place to stay;<\/p>\n

\u00a0They\u2019re just like senators in every way,<\/p>\n

\u00a0Those three blind mice.<\/p>\n

David had a wonderful sense of humor and often teamed up with fellow Fort Worth children\u2019s author Jan Peck<\/span> to put on delightful programs for schools, libraries and book festivals.<\/p>\n

He also wrote a collection of stories about his Grandpaw Lacy and allowed me to include one of them, a gently moving piece called \u201cWages for a Hired Hand,\u201d in the book of West Texas Christmas Stories<\/span> I edited in 2013.<\/p>\n

In 2004 David and I did a book signing together and were virtually ignored while folks literally lined up out the door to get former Texas Tech football coach Spike Dykes<\/span> to autograph his new book, Tales from the Texas Tech Sidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n

We joked that never again would we try to compete against a football coach at a book signing. I will miss him.<\/p>\n

New Texas novel: <\/span>How the Cowboy Was Won<\/span><\/a><\/span> is the latest novel from popular Texas romance author Lori Wilde<\/span> (Avon Books, $7.99 paperback).<\/p>\n

Set in the fictional town of Cupid, Texas, the story features the town matchmaker, who can\u2019t seem to find a match for herself, and a cowboy who is her best friend. She tries to hitch him up with the right gal, but who might that be?<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Folklore:<\/span> Legends and Life in Texas: Folklore in the Lone Star State in Stories and Song,<\/span> edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt,<\/span> is the annual volume published by the Texas Folklore Society based on presentations at the society\u2019s get-togethers (University of North Texas Press, $45 hardcover).<\/p>\n

As always, there is plenty of good reading here for those interested in history and folklore, including this intriguing title: \u201cYodels, Cattle Calls, and Other Melodious Sounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> writes about Texas books and authors. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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