Author(s): Lori Mortensen,Michael Allen Austin
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 32
Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Language: English
Date Published: 2013-07-01
Dimensions: 213.36 x 254 x 10.16mm
Publication City/Country: Boston, MA, United States
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Illustrations: Illustrations, color

Cowpoke Clyde's house was completely clean--he'd even shooed off the horseflies: "Then right behind his cookin' pot, / he spied one thing he'd plumb forgot: / ol' Dawg, his faithful, snorin' friend, / all caked with mud from end to end." Needless to say, Dawg wakes up and runs. The chase that follows--with page-turn surprises--makes for a hilarious shaggy-dog story involving fleas, a hog, bribery, cats, deception, and a mule. The rhyming stanzas are pitch-perfect, Texas-style, and plumb near cry out to be read aloud. Austin's expressive acrylic and colored-pencil caricatures of Cowpoke Clyde and his menagerie are priceless. A storytime shoo-in!