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FIND THE STARTER PAPERDOOLL on page A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME under DECAMPS
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.
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:
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.
Give him a whirl. What 'ja got to lose?
The Intro-Novella
will be posted here, in installments.
Chapters 1, 2, up now.
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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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(you guessed it, right?)
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The scattered triangles will be greyed-out small character studies.
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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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