Cowboys and Cowgirls: Yippee-Yay!

by Gail Gibbons

Overview

Grab your wide-brimmed hat, chaps, and spurs—let's round 'em up and move 'em along! The cowboys of the West are going on a cattle drive!

In words and pictures, Gail Gibbons captures all the excitement and adventure of cowboy life. Her colorful watercolors re-create cowboys' clothing, equipment, and lifestyle, and the lively text includes descriptions of famous cowboys and cowgirls, as well as historical facts.

True to Gail Gibbons's fine reputation as a nonfiction author for kids, Cowboys and Cowgirls will delight, excite, and inform any young buckaroo.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316168595
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	07/01/2003
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	494,067
Product dimensions:	10.12(w) x 10.12(h) x 0.25(d)
Lexile:	830L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Gail Gibbons has written and illustrated more than one hundred informational books for children, including Recycle!: A Handbook for Kids, Knights in Shining Armor, and Cowboys and Cowgirls: Yippie-Yay! A talented writer who turns fact into entertainment, she has traveled across the country to research topics as diverse as deep-sea submersibles, the Old West, and more. Gail Gibbons divides her time between a cottage on Matinicus Island off the coast of Maine and a farmhouse in Vermont surrounded by sugar maple trees.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Cowboys and Cowgirls: Yippee-Yay!:
"Almost everything kids ever wanted to know about cowboys is packed into this colorful picture book." —Booklist

Praise for Exploring the Deep, Dark Sea:
"An evocative and fact-filled entrée to oceanography, this'll whet kids' appetites for more technical and detailed approaches." —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Praise for Knights in Shining Armor:
"Children won't want to surrender this book, so buy multiple copies." —Booklist

"A shining example of the type of non-fiction that Gibbons does well." —School Library Journal

Praise for Pirates: Robbers of the High Seas:
"A successful melding of fun and fact." —Booklist

Praise for Recycle! A Handbook for Kids:
"Attractive and timely, an excellent introduction." —Kirkus Reviews

"Here's Gibbons, doing what she does best—taking a subject that's interesting to kids (and part of the curriculum), honing it down to the essential information, and presenting it in an appealing format." —Booklist
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