Ten Texas Babies - Tapa dura

This fond send-up of all things Texas is a delightful romp through the Lone Star State from acclaimed Texas author David Davis. The warm, lively illustrations from husband-and-wife team Shelley Ann Jackson and Jeff Crosby draw on the artists' love of their state.

Ten Texas babies make mischief and fun in this adorable counting book. Children and adults will laugh as these tiny tots run rampant through the Lone Star countryside, getting into the most unlikely jams. The young'uns count down from ten, picking bushels of pecans, scrubbing a piglet, and playing the fiddle. Count back up as the babies swipe Grandmaw's bonnet, cook trail-drive stew, and try to catch an armadillo. After running, swimming, and cooking all day, it's bedtime for the tired tykes.

Mosey on over, draw up a seat, and count to ten, Texas-style!

Also by David Davis:
The Southern Twelve Days of Christmas � Southern Mother Goose � The Twelve Days of Christmas-in Texas, That Is � A Southern Child's Garden of Verses � Texas Aesop's Fables � The Librarian's Night Before Christmas � Texas Mother Goose � Rock 'n' Roll Dogs � Texas Zeke and the Longhorn � Ten Redneck Babies: A Southern Counting Book � The Nurse's Night Before Christmas � Jazz Cats � The Trucker's Night Before Christmas � The Redneck Night Before Christmas

David Davis has published artwork, cartoons, poems, and short stories in various magazines and newspapers. His political cartoons have earned an award from the Mississippi Press Association.

Davis's books Jazz Cats and Ten Redneck Babies: A Southern Counting Book were International Reading Association/Children's Book Council Children's Choices Selections. A popular speaker at educational conferences, libraries, and schools and a fifth-generation Texan, Davis lives in Fort Worth, Texas.

Shelley Ann Jackson and Jeff Crosby are Texas-based illustrators. They both earned their BFAs from the University of North Texas and MFAs from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

Jackson received a graduate certificate in picture books from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the assistant regional advisor of the Austin chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers. This is her fourth picture book.

Crosby has been a freelance illustrator for clients such as the New York Times, Village Voice, GQ, and Highlights and illustrated several children's picture books, including Pelican's Otis Steele and the Taileebone: A Southern Tall Tale. Crosby and Jackson both teach illustration and design at Texas State University. They live with their daughter, two dogs, and five chickens in Austin, Texas.