The Gum Chewing Rattler, Volume 1

Joe Hayes

Cinco Puntos Press, 2008 - Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages

Kids always want Joe Hayes to tell The Gum-Chewing Rattler. And why not? It combines so many things kids love to do--chew bubble gum, tell tall tales, and drive their moms crazy--with the wild, impossible claim that a rattlesnake chewed gum and blew a bubble with it

You see, when Joe was a boy, that's what he told his mother--that bubble gum saved him from a rattlesnake's fangs Really Don't worry--Joe's mother didn't believe him either.

In 2005, Joe Hayes received the Talking Leaves Award from the National Storytelling Network for his contributions to the literature of storytelling.

About the author

Joe Hayes is one of America's premier storytellers. He grew up in a small town in southern Arizona where he started learning Spanish from his classmates. As Hayes got older, he began reading the work of folklorists and anthropologists and gathering the old stories from the Southwest region. His books have received the Arizona Young Readers Award, two Land of Enchantment Children's Book Awards, the Texas Bluebonnet award, and the National Storytelling Network Talking Leaves Award. He lives in New Mexico. Antonio Castro L. was born in Zacatecas, Mexico and has lived in the Juarez-El Paso area for most of his life. He was awarded a prestigious Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor for his illustrations in My Tata's Remedies / Los remedios de mi tata. He has also illustrated several other picture books for Cinco Puntos Press, including The Gum Chewing Rattler and My Pet Rattlesnake.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Gum Chewing Rattler, Volume 1; The Gum Chewing Rattler
• Author: Joe Hayes
• Illustrated by: Antonio Castro L.
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press, 2008
• ISBN: 1933693193, 9781933693194
• Length: 32 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians; Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play; Juvenile Fiction / Westerns