Young Cowboy; Author: James, Will; Hardcover

Author: James, Will
Hardcover; Illustrated
Mountain Press Publishing Company
ISBN: 0878424199

By the time Billy Roper was one year old, his dad was toting him along on horseback rides, and in a few more years Billy was leading his own pony around the corral. Young Billy watches the skillful riding and roping of the ranch hands and learns about the hard work and responsibilities required of a cowboy. In between rides around the ranch, Billy takes on the serious business of learning to read and write his ABCs, coaxed along by the incentive of writing an order for his first pair of spurs. Readers ages 8 and up who have dreamed of riding and owning a horse will gallop through Young Cowboy, reining in just long enough to imagine themselves in the 31 line drawings and 5 color paintings that illustrate the story.