Ten Redneck Babies: A Southern Counting Book Hardcover - 2004

From the jacket flap

"Loaded with Southern charm."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Readers will have a hoot counting from 1 to 10 and back again in pure southern style. From bluetick hounds to banjos and maw-this book has it all, redneck style."
--Reading Teacher

Need to count to ten with a Southern accent? These redneck babies will show you how! From Moon Pies to magnolias and kudzu to catfish, ten diapered dynamos get into all kinds of down-home trouble. Children will love counting down, then up again, to the babies' adventures, while adults hoot at the hilarious rhymes.

In this humorous counting book, author David Davis and illustrator Sue Marshall Ward poke gentle fun at their own "redneck" backgrounds while celebrating what it is like to grow up in the South.

David Davis, who studied fine arts at Stephen F. Austin University in Texas, 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.

His book Jazz Cats was a 2002 International Reading Association/Children's Book Council Children's Choices Selection. Davis has also written Rock 'n' Roll Dogs, A Southern Child's Garden of Verses, Southern Mother Goose, Texas Aesop's Fables, Texas Zeke and the Longhorn, The Twelve Days of Christmas-In Texas, That Is, and several humorous installments of the Night Before Christmas Series, all published by Pelican. Davis lives in Fort Worth, Texas.

Sue Marshall Ward was born in Houston, Texas, to a family of artists. After studying art at Arlington State College, now University of Texas at Arlington, Ward began a long career in art direction, advertising, and illustration. She has also illustrated Sugar Lump's Night Before Christmas, Texas Aesop's Fables, and Texas Mother Goose for Pelican. Ward lives in Arlington, Texas.

David Davis and Sue Marshall Ward are both members of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Media reviews

Citations

• Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2005, Page 7
• Kirkus Review - Children, 09/15/2004, Page 913
• Publishers Weekly, 01/10/2005, Page 56
• School Library Journal, 01/01/2005, Page 90