Cowboys and Cowgirls: Yippee-Yay! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316168595)

Grab your wide-brimmed hat, chaps, and spurs -- Learn all about cowboys and cowgirls with favorite nonfiction author and illustrator Gail Gibbons as your guide!

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.

"Almost everything kids ever wanted to know about cowboys is packed into this colorful picture book." -- Booklist

Don't miss these other favorite nonfiction books by Gail Gibbons:
Knights in Shining Armor
Recycle!
Tell Me, Tree

Author: Gail Gibbons
ISBN-10: 0316168599
ISBN-13: 9780316168595
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2003
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 10.02h x 10.00w x 0.11d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 133995 / Cowboys and Cowgirls: Yippee-Yay!

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.