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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch about Jones, Tulip, England with the genre: Children's Books, Literature & Fiction.
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conversations.value: Gr 14the author excels at writing tall tales, and readers will not be disappointed by her newest yarn. In 1870, the widow Tulip Jones inherits millions of dollars and a ranch, so she moves from England to By-Golly Gully. She quickly learns that everything is bigger in Texas, including her garden vegetables and her beloved pet tortoises. But her blissful peace is disrupted when word gets around about her rich and unmarried status. Hilarity ensues as the widow comes up with a variety of ways to get rid of the 1000 suitors who line up at her door. Exaggeration is the name of the game from text to illustrations. The story is told in a linear, yet compelling way, and the delightful tongue-twisting narration uses a variety of fun and folksy phrases. the author takes her time, humorously setting the scene through the first few pages, which prepares readers to expect larger-than-life problems and solutions. The characters are exaggerated as well, from the odious suitors to the spunky and independent widow Jones, who takes a proactive approach to solving her problems. Hawkes's painterly illustrations, rendered with acrylic and pencil, feature vast blue skies, fluffy white clouds, and sun-drenched landscapes that firmly establish the setting. These exaggerated visuals match the humorous tone set by the text. At its best when read aloud, this story will also appeal to elementary school kids who will be inspired to create their own tales with over-the-top characters.Amy Seto Musser, Denver Public Library
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: Amy Seto Musser, Denver Public Library. In 1870, the widow Tulip Jones inherits millions of dollars and a ranch, so she moves from England to By-Golly Gully. She quickly learns that everything is bigger in Texas, including her garden vegetables and her beloved pet tortoises. But her blissful peace is disrupted when word gets around about her rich and unmarried status. Hilarity ensues as the widow comes up with a variety of ways to get rid of the 1000 suitors who line up at her door. Exaggeration is the name of the game from text to illustrations. The story is told in a linear, yet compelling way, and the delightful tongue-twisting narration uses a variety of fun and folksy phrases. the author takes her time, humorously setting the scene through the first few pages, which prepares readers to expect larger-than-life problems and solutions. The characters are exaggerated as well, from the odious suitors to the spunky and independent widow Jones, who takes a proactive approach to solving her problems. Hawkes's painterly illustrations, rendered with acrylic and pencil, feature vast blue skies, fluffy white clouds, and sun-drenched landscapes that firmly establish the setting. These exaggerated visuals match the humorous tone set by the text. At its best when read aloud, this story will also appeal to elementary school kids who will be inspired to create their own tales with over-the-top characters.Gr 14the author excels at writing tall tales, and readers will not be disappointed by her newest yarn.
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conversations.value: Provide the first three paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
  Summary: In 1870, Tulip Jones, a wealthy, self-reliant widow from England, acquires the By-Golly Gully Ranch in Texas and soon findsherself saddled with 1000 suitors.
  On the Fourth of July 1870, the widow Tulip Jones of Greater Bore, England, inherited thirty-five million dollars and a ranch at By-Golly Gully, Texas. She moved there at once. She brought two trunks of tea and her twelve pet tortoises: January, February, March—and so on, in order of age, down to little December, who was not much bigger than the period at the end of this sentence. Three servants came along as ranch hands—Linsey, Woolsey, and Calico.
  They arrived in the middle of the hottest summer Texas had ever known. By-Golly Gully was so hot that chickens laid hard-boiled eggs, and lizards hobbled around on tiny stilts to avoid burning their feet on the ground.
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conversations.value: Provide five more paragraphs.. End with the sentence ' Within an hour, fifty suitors set out for the Rio Grande River.'.
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conversations.value: Sheriff and Spit Arroyo marched up to Widow Jones with grins as wide as their hats, determined to make her marry one of them. They didn't care which one, for they planned to grab her money and run off to Mexico—without her—the minute the wedding was over.
  Charlie set a pile of cookies before the widow. "Try this," he said, his kind face wrinkling with concern.
  All that night, she paced across the porch, munching on Charlie's cookies and thinking. By the time the sun rose, she had a plan.
  Later that day, the Pony Express carried a notice from By-Golly Ranch, to be printed in every newspaper in America:
  Nine hundred and fifty men gave up on the spot and left the ranch. But the rest were undaunted. Within an hour, fifty suitors set out for the Rio Grande River.
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conversations.value: Provide the last paragraph.
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conversations.value: It was midnight when the last couple left and Tulip Jones went into the kitchen for her nightly talk with Charlie Doughpuncher.