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.
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.
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
"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