The squabbling, blundering Golly sisters, Rose and May-May, are off on tour in their covered wagon to dance and sing in different towns. But the sisters never seem to agree on anything: in their first show, they spend so much time arguing over who gets to wear the blue dress that their audience goes home. Then May-May mounts their horse and tries to get it to dance on stage – but the horse tears out of town with her on his back. These six hilarious tales are sure to have readers rolling in the aisles.

Children’s Literature

Young readers can get a taste of Byars’ humorous storytelling in her I Can Read series. This story offers us two goofy performers of Wild West times in the Golly Sisters. In addition to funning, though, the sisters deal with issues of sibling rivalry, disappointment at unappreciative audiences, and the challenge of the unknown.

Publish Date : 2003-02-18T00:00:01Z