Look out Johnny Kaw.  Move over Paul Bunyan. There’s a new gal in town and she’s not too pleased with what those guys have done to the prairie.  Kansas Katie sets out to spruce things up a bit..

When Katie finds her big yellow cat, Buttercup, hiding in some “weeds,” she discovers the way to make Kansas beautiful.  Sunflowers!

Don’t miss this new Kansas tall tale.  Add “Kansas Katie” to the ranks of characters who created our state.  Once you read her story, you’ll agree, “aint no other farmer like Kansas Katie.”

Kansas Katie also includes a song, a cookie recipe, information about sunflowers, and a list of children's books abour sunflowers!

“I heard tell there was this ocean of land stretching away across the prairie out west in Kansas, a place where a body could look forever at a waving sea of tall grass.  I knew right then and there that me and Buttercup would head out there someday.  ‘Twas a sight I had to see.  But I put it off a mite because my farming was doing so well.

 Then I heard how Paul Bunyan had been through there chopping down most of the trees on the plains and plowing them up, and how he and Johnny Kaw got in some monstrous ruckus.  Johnny just about finished off that place whacking off the tops of the hills and planting wheat.  He got rid of most of the tall prairie grass.  Story was, Paul and Johnny were making sure that Kansas was becoming nothin’ much more than wheat fields and cattle ranges.  Now that was enough to get me started in a westerly direction.  Sounded to me like that place needed the touch of a woman!”

 “I cast my seeds all over the state.  Millions and millions and millions of them.  Kansas was a carpet of flowers.  The September prairie glowed with the light of them.  And it was full of great hiding places for Buttercup.  Long time later, about nineteen-o-three, they made Kansas the sunflower state.  You can bet I was shining my buttons!  Ain’t no other farmer like Kansas Katie.   Ain’t no other state like Kansas!”

ISBN 0-9659712-3-6
48 pages, paperbound 
8.5" x 11"     $6.95 
B&W line drawings
Katie doll photo
Full color cover

See some of the 34 interior B&W illustrations from Kansas Katie