The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (Hardcover)

from empress8411

It was with much trepidation that I picked up this novel. Kathi Appelt's The Underneath made me ugly-cry and left me depressed and heart-sore (although it is an excellent book for that very reason) and I was not eager to engage in a book that would cause emotions again. However, I was pleasantly ...

from foggidawn

Bingo and J'miah are two young raccoons, official True Blue Scouts of the Sugar Man Swamp. They know their duties: be true and faithful to each other, heed the Voice of Intelligence, and in case of emergency, wake the Sugar Man. What Bingo and J'Miah don't know yet is that trouble is heading for ...

from Nancy.Castaldo

I knew about two chapters in that I didn't want to rush through this. I wanted to savor Appelt's lyrical words, her carefully constructed eco-plot. The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp follows in the footsteps of all great American folklore with memorable characters and folksy language. And wh...

from laytonwoman3rd

Love, love, love. Great fun in Texas bayou country with raccoons (the scouts of the title); feral hogs Clydine & Buzzy and their 15 hungry offspring; a lost DeSoto; and a mythical creature, second cousin to Sasquatch, whose familiar is a crotalus horridus giganticus ("look it up") named Gertrude....

from lillibrary

I listened to the audiobook version of this novel and thoroughly enjoyed Lyle Lovett's narration. Kathy Appelt has a knack for creating southern folklore that sounds authentic and feels as old as the swamp where her story is set. In the tradition of oral storytelling, the True Blue Scouts has it ...