CLEO CAN TIE A BOW

A Rabbit and Fox Story

by

Sybrina Durant

Genre: Children’s Activity Book / Picture Book

Publisher: Self-Published

Date of Publication: September 25, 2020

Number of Pages: 39 pages

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Cleo loves bows. She wears her hair in a bow and decorates her room with bows. Cleo is bow crazy. Learning to tie a bow is very difficult for some people but Cleo remembers how to do it from a cute story she once heard. It is about a little rabbit with very long ears and a very helpful fox who shows her what to do to keep them clean. This is the story of how Cleo learns to tie a “bunny ear” bow. Exercises in manual dexterity build self-esteem in children. Knowing how to tie shoestrings, scarves and more into a bow is a useful and rewarding skill. Teach a child a useful skill. Build confidence and self-esteem that lasts a lifetime. Other books in the Learn To Tie With The Rabbit and the Fox series are the book with that name in English, Spanish, and Tagalog plus Nellie Knows How To Knot A Neck Scarf and Ned Knows How To Knot A Necktie.

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Author Sybrina Durant’s Favorite Cartoon Girls

(With Bows)

1: BETTY BOOP – 1930s – Everyone loved Betty Boop. She was a star of Talkertoons. Her first film was Dizzy Dishes, where she actually looked more like a dog than a human.  You might not remember that, but I bet you remember her in Boop-Oop-a-Doop where she was a lion tamer and a tightrope walker. Betty Boop is still a cartoon favorite today.

2: Blossom – PowerPuff Girl – 1998 – Blossom was the “everything nice” girl of her superpower gang. She was also the most level-headed of all the Powerpuff Girls. She could literally freeze objects with her breath; so to keep her happy and you “freeze free,” it might be best to give her a candy bar when she starts to get cranky.  Sugar is known to calm her way down.

3: Betty Rubble – Flintstones – 1960 – Betty was the best friend of Wilma Flintstone, and she was the adoptive mother of Bamm-Bamm. Remember that little tyke, along with Fred and Wilma’s daughter, Pebbles? These cave people may have lived in the prehistoric town of Bedrock, but they had some amazing alternatives to our modern conveniences like telephones, automobiles, and washing machines.

4: Judy Jetson – The Jetsons – 1962 – This was my very favorite cartoon, growing up.  I really thought we’d be living their futuristic lifestyle by now. At least, I thought I’d have a flying car. Judy was George and Jane Jetson’s sixteen-year-old daughter. Anyone remember her floating robotic diary, named, “DiDi”?

5: Nancy (and Sluggo) – 1938 – Nancy was an 8-year-old child who lived with her Aunt Fritzi Ritz in Three Rocks, Tennessee. Her best friend was an orphan named Sluggo Smith, whom she was always trying to improve. The Nancy comic strip was so popular that it inspired a game called 5-card Nancy. Have you ever played that game?

6: Helga G. Pataki – Hey Arnold – 1996 – Poor Helga…she loved Arnold so much that she literally made multiple shrines dedicated to him. Too bad she didn’t know that bullying someone was not conducive to getting them to love you back. An angry, rude girl is kind of a strange main character for a kid’s show, but it worked for this one. It thrived on the airwaves from October 7, 1996, to June 8, 2004.

7: Little Audrey – 1947 – Little Audrey was a variation of another cartoon character known as Little Lulu.  Little Audrey was drawn in a blue colored theme while Little Lulu’s color palette was red. Sadly, Little Audrey was the butt of a lot of mean jokes, but nothing could get her down.  No matter what catastrophe occurred, “Li’l Audrey just laughed and laughed.” Her first film appearance was in Noveltoon’s Santa’s Surprise.

8: Susie Carmichael – Rugrats – 1993 – Susie is one of the toddlers (thus the term “rugrats”) in a series of imaginative adventures that mainly revolved around Angelica and Tommy Pickles. The kind and fun-loving Susie was introduced to the show as a foil to the mean-spirited Angelica. Susie was easy to love, while Angelica – not so much.

9: Abby Hatcher – 2019 – Abby Hatcher is a Canadian animated cartoon series about a 7-year-old child of American and Chinese descent with professional detective skills and tools to rival those of Inspector Gadget. She and her best friend, Bozzly, an aquamarine rabbit-like Fuzzly, go on wild adventures together.

10: Maggie Simpson – The Simpsons – 1989 – The Simpsons is one of the longest running cartoons in history.  There have been 690 episodes and counting. Most everyone knows who innocent baby Maggie is. In all these years, she has never learned to talk or walk very well but she is still adorable, just the same. Did you know that the word “simp” is short for “simpleton” and that is where the family name is derived?

I loved this list and it sent me down quite the rabbit hole wondering if there were other characters that might have made my top ten list.  I have to say, some that I thought had bows did not, like Olive Oyl or any of the Peanuts characters.

Sybrina Durant is the author of some fanciful and some factual books.  Her writings have inspired several online entrepreneurial ventures. Two of those are the Rabbit and Fox Bookstore and the Girls Love Bows Gift Shop.  Spend some time browsing both for some interesting and surprising gift ideas for yourself and others

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