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I read cowboy-themed books to 1st, 2nd, and 4th grade classes today in preparation for our AR kick-off next week.

The fourth graders loved the book The Toughest Cowboy...great success

First and second graders thought Adventures of Cow Two was very funny and second graders really enjoyed Lasso Lou and Cowboy McCoy

Add these three books to book order.

More Cowboy-Themed Books

Tucker, Kathy and Nadine Bernard Westcott, ill. - Do Cowboys Ride Bikes? Humorous rhyming answers to fourteen questions about what it's like to be a cowboy.

Wheeler, Lisa and Kurt Cyrus, ill. - Sixteen Cows - Rhyming tale of Cowboy Gene and Cowgirl Sue, whose beloved cows get mixed up when a storm blows down the fence between their ranches. - not sure this would work so well as a read aloud

Frank, John and Zachary Pullen - The Toughest Cowboy: or How the Wild West was Tamed - this is really a neat book, funny with great illustrations; the tough cowboy ends up with a free dog that happens to be a french poodle named "Foofy" - a little crude humor, the kind that boys like, lengthy for a read aloud

Cowboy-themed books

I'm reading through a couple dozen picture books that have cowboys as the main subject. Next week we will kick off our AR reading program and I've offered read-alouds to all classes. The books that I liked the best and that I think will do well as read-alouds are:

Charlip, Remy: Little Old Big Beard and Big Young Little Beard

Sauer, Tammi and Mike Reed, ill.: Cowboy Camp

Failing, Barbara Larmon and Tedd Arnold, ill.: Lasso Lou and Cowboy McCoy

Mitchell, Marianne and Bryan Langdo, ill.: Joe Cinders (Southwestern retelling of the Cinderella story)

Bell, Cece: Sock Monkey Rides Again

Icenoggle, Jodi and Normand Chartier, ill: 'Til the Cows Come Home (pair this with Joseph Had a Little Overcoat)