Cowpoke Clyde Rides the Range

by Lori Mortensen, Michael Allen Austin (Illustrator)

Overview

Cowpoke Clyde is plumb confused. An ad in his favorite catalog says he oughta buy a bike. But why should he do that? After all, he’s got a horse. Still, a bike wouldn’t buck or bite, and he wouldn’t have to feed it. He orders one, and when it comes, he mounts up and sets right off, wibble-wobblin’ down the road. Good thing he’s got his trusty friend Dawg to look out for him. Turns out learning to ride a bike is just a tad bit harder than he thought!
     With its rip-roaring rhyming text and turn-the-page revelations, this book is pure read-aloud fun.

Praise for Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg:
* “Plumb funny, fer sure.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544370463
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	05/03/2016
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	AD660L (what's this?)
File size:	26 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Lori Mortensen is an award-winning children’s book author of more than 100 books and over 500 stories and articles. Recent titles include Nonsense! The Curious Story of Edward Gorey (Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Away with Words, the Daring Story of Isabella Bird (Peachtree), about a Victorian traveler who defied society’s boundaries for women and became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society. When she’s not letting her cat in or out, Lori is tapping away at her computer, conjuring, coaxing, and prodding her latest stories to life. She lives in Cameron Park, CA.
 
www.lorimortensen.com
Twitter: @lorimortensen

Michael Allen Austin is the award-winning illustrator of several children's books, including Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break If You Want to Survive the School Bus. Publishers Weekly has exclaimed that his illustrations are "wild and wily," and Booklist has called his art "unusual and exuberant." He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Kim, and their sheepdog, Riley. Visit him online at austinillustration.com and on Instagram @michaelallenaustin.

Editorial Reviews

"Mortensen’s melodic and twangy couplets beg to be read aloud..." —Booklist "Another doggone funny cowboy caper chock full o' chuckles." —Kirkus, STARRED review —

From the Publisher

★ 2016-03-02
That ol' rascal Cowpoke Clyde is back in the saddle again for another rollicking ride on the range (Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg, 2013), this time on one of them newfangled machines called a bicycle. The lanky, white cowboy decides to trade in his horse, ordering up a shiny, red bicycle from a mail-order catalog, or "cat-y-log" in Clyde's colloquial manner of speaking. The pitch-perfect rhyming text is filled with amusing, old-fashioned expressions in Clyde's strong cowboy voice, just begging to be read aloud with a believable twang. When Clyde takes off on his first ride, he's followed by his trusty, dusty Dawg, a faithful Old English sheepdog in a red bandanna. In subsequent action-filled scenes, they meet a "horny toad," a hare, a porcupine, and some bighorn sheep, which the devoted Dawg chases out of his path just in time. Thoughtful art direction sets up each new critter encounter with dramatic pacing and a page turn to reveal the next animal obstacle, with the new creature's name set in huge display type. Vibrant digitally produced illustrations give Clyde a distinct personality and meet the challenge of capturing a cowboy in motion on a bicycle, and close-up views of the prickly porcupine and bug-eyed bighorn sheep effectively animate the critters so they seem ready to jump right off the page. Another doggone funny cowboy caper chock full o' chuckles. (Picture book. 3-8)

Kirkus Reviews