Take Me to Your BBQ
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Aliens have landed on Willy's farm, and they're not leaving without a square dance and a square meal! So fire up that grill, lay on the barbeque sauce, and snatch up that fiddle. Told in verse, this rollicking story puts a twist on the typical encounter with the third kind. Adam McCauley's out-of-this-world illustrations match Kathy Duval's hoe-down rhymes like ribs and taters! Get ready for some extraterrestrial, lip-smacking fun.
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At home on the range, underneath glorious Western skies, a farmer named Willy is whipping up a modest dinner on his barbecue grill. The delicious smells attract a flying saucer filled with little green men whose endless demands for food and entertainment turn Willy from fearful ("Yippee ki-yi! Yippee ki-yay!/ I think they might take me away!") to annoyed ("Those little fellas just won't stop;/ I keep on fiddlin' 'til they drop") in short order. Clever Willy steals the aliens' spaceship, takes it to a distant star (his route is mapped through a night sky gatefold that tips a cowboy hat to classic SF comic books), and opens up a hoedown-themed eatery that might just give Star Wars' Mos Eisley Cantina a run for its money. Although Duval's (The Three Bears' Halloween) rhyming is rather literal, it doesn't much matter. McCauley's midcentury-inspired renderings and handsome vintage palette (his use of teal and deep red is particularly impressive) convey all the cheeky eeriness that this farmer vs. aliens story needs. Ages 3 5.
