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:Paperback.
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.
