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Puss in Boots Picture Book,

published by ..................................., 1878

 

He's been written about

and written about,

but my joker is the ultimate

in crackpot cats.

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Garfield, eat your heart out.

 

Sly blunders, blusters, and bamboozles his way across late sixteenth century Europe, abetted by a variety of critters, including a frog, a runaway eight-year-old duke, a love-struck monkey and, most importantly, a stalwart civil servant (the redoubtable John Dee). He impresses the Queen of England but, finding himself persona non grata with her after certain missteps, he departs for other opportunities in a rat-beseiged town in northern Germany.

 

Self-absorbed, somewhat aloof, he nonetheless is capable of empathy (once in a rare while), experiences (fleeting) self-doubt, and is full of impossible dreams (more than his fair share).

 

In other words,

he's as human as he can be. 

Check him out:

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A Novel of the Critter Formerly Known As

Puss-in-Boots

 

As previously reported, the screwball was a hard-nosed negotiator, but my research indecates that he was also a poet (of moderate skill but much heart), a seeker of knowledge (curious about everything), and, 

to give credit where credit is due, an early, important 

adovcate for animal rights.

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Give him a whirl. What 'ja got to lose?

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The Intro-Novella

will be posted here, in installments.

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Chapters 1, 2, up now.

Sly!

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I will create an ensemble geared to each episode. When I have the art for book one, I will sell it on Amazon, to cover my production costs. I'll repeat the strategy with books thwo abd three.

 

Collect the series!

 

Whoa!!

Get a load of the puss 

on that puss.

Someone's not too happy, looks like.

What's up with this one?

 

Hmmm, could be he's annoyed. He's annoyed a lot lately. He's at the beck and call of a man who can't get along without him. His time is not his own, and he's sick of it.

 

It could be an impatient look. A cat can’t teach himself to read? Can’t learn to write? He’ll show the world what a cat can do. 

 

Hey, he’s probably going for dignified. We have here the haughty pose of a gentleman, which he considers himself to be despite low birth and a hardscrabble childhood. He’s made his way up, way up in the world, and he’s damn proud of it. 

 

Wait. It might be a come hither look - he’s a notable rake. Or a world-weary pose - he’s seen it all. Suffice it to say, he's a complex critter of merry moods and manic impulses.

He's a real sweetheart,  in a rollicking

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use a laugh? Here are a few

suggestions:

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Sly

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Misc hievous look

 

at the Life and Times of an Icon of Children's Literature: 

ABelovedBrat.

                                                 A sharp. A scholar.  

 A wonder of nature 

(in A wonderous age).

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Sylvester Boots

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aka Sly, aka Boots,

aka tje ___ ___, aka

      My Guy  Sly

yakkity-yak!

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 guys!talk  back .

The scattered triangles will be greyed-out small character studies.

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aslipperyslurp:

As widely reported, the critter was a hard-nosed negotiator, but also a poet (of moderate skill but much heart), a seeker of knowledge (curious about everything) and, to give credit where credit is due, an early, important adov, 

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My GuySly-    

Anything you see to the right,

pretend it isn't there.

It's stuff I'm thinking about.

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The

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profile to come

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Odds & Ends.

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The Rogue

Decamps

to access

chapter by chapter

titles.

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For an

at-a-glance sum-up, 

proceed to:

In A Nutshell

Despite the theme, 

none of my stuff is truly for children.

(Not even the pieces I insist on calling kid's books.)

 

Catly Curiosity and Yo Ho! chronicle Sly's childhood misadventures. They are sophisticated storytelling, but silly, silly, silly, which I hope will grab the kidlets, if read to them. Not too much here conventionally light and sweet, but a nonsense plot, a playful rhyme, and sly footnotes create, well, enormous fun, is my opinion. 

 

Catly and Yo are short verse. Rogue is a 3-part novel. I've lopped off a good chunk for a novella. The final version, which will be part of book one, will have plenty of surprises for everyone. 
 
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