{"id":879,"date":"2013-04-29T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2013-07-17T14:57:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T19:57:57","slug":"y-for-yehudi-mercado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"Y for Yehudi Mercado’s wacky Pantalones, TX: Don’t Chicken Out! (book review) – racing, mischief, and giant chicken challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Texas legends<\/a> and tumbleweed pompons,
\na schoolkid planning the biggest prank<\/a> ever,
\nand a giant chicken that blocks out the sun!<\/p>\n

Y is for Yehudi Mercado and for yee-haw!<\/p>\n

Welcome to Pantalones, Texas, the town where underwear was invented<\/a>, Chico Bustamante’s souped-up go-kart outruns the sheriff’s chicken-shack-mobile, and the jail doubles as the schoolhouse.<\/p>\n

Ask for this first book in the series at your local library<\/a>\u00a0or independent bookstore<\/a> now so you can enjoy the feuding, friendship, and sunglasses-wearing dog<\/a> Baby T, Chico’s cool sidekick. Yehudi’s website<\/a> says the book is “Smokey and the Bandit meets Peanuts!”\u00a0 Hope we’ll see book two soon – Pantalones, TX: Night of the Underwear Wolf!<\/em><\/p>\n

What’s your best chicken-chasing story?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Pantalones, TX: Don’t Chicken Out \/ written and illustrated by Yehudi Mercado.\u00a0 Archaia Entertainment, 2012.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>] \u00a0 (Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher)<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/strong>: The dry riverbeds of Pantalones, Texas, are great for go-kart racing and tumbleweed chasing, but Chico wants to make his mark on history. With his trusty sidekick Baby T the sunglasses-wearing dog and best friend Pigboy (yes, he’s a boy who’s part pig), Chico plans one stunt after another, always one step ahead of the shifty sheriff.<\/p>\n

In this tiny town where underwear was invented, the jail also serves as schoolhouse, the schoolbus is an armadillo-drawn wagon, and the sheriff speeds around in a mobile chicken-shack trying to catch Chico the prankster. Everyone thinks the New York weatherman and his son are from a foreign country, but no one knows they’re closet vegetarians.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Cornwallis plans to make Pantalones famous for more than just underwear, so he creates a gigantic chicken and dares Chico to ride the bucking cluck like a rodeo star! Of course, Chico Bustamante and Baby T are hungry for adventure!<\/p>\n

Can schoolkid Chico ride the giant chicken for the whole nine seconds?
\nWill the people of Pantalones ever realize that New York isn’t a foreign country?
\nWhat does a surfing rabbi have to do with all this?<\/p>\n

Texas graphic novelist Yehudi Mercado uses his signature vivid color palette and wild imagination to create this bigger-than-life little town where anything could happen (and usually does) in the first book of his Pantalones, TX series. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas legends and tumbleweed pompons, a schoolkid planning the biggest prank ever, and a giant chicken that blocks out the sun! Y is for Yehudi Mercado and for yee-haw! Welcome to Pantalones, Texas, the town where underwear was invented, Chico Bustamante’s souped-up go-kart outruns the sheriff’s chicken-shack-mobile, and the jail doubles as the schoolhouse. Ask […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,80],"tags":[10,22,4,45,20,16,18,40,44,46,43,15,9,35,60,173,53,8,28],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel","tag-a2z","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-surprises","tag-tbr2012","tag-texas","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}