![]() ![]() This is one to capture with your lariat and hold onto tight.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. You can include it in twists on favorite tales as well as for those cowboy themes. Share this one in a couple of different themes and units. I enjoyed the western theme of the book combined with a real tribute to the original tale. Great fun! The illustrations will project well when used with a group, from the double spread of the Gingerbread Cowboy before he is baked to the yellow-oranges of the desert that he runs through. But what happens when he meets a coyote sleeping in the sun Janet Squires and Holly Berry retell this classic tale with a Wild Western flair, fil. The book is easy to read aloud and just calls for a variety of voices from the reader. The Gingerbread Cowboy can run from the rancher, he can dash past the javelinas, and he can giddyup right by the cattle grazing on the mesa. The book ends in the traditional snappy way. But, as with most gingerbread boys, this one finds himself a coyote willing to take him across the river. Out jumps the Gingerbread Cowboy and off he runs, “as fast as his boots could carry him.” As he runs, he dashes past all sorts of wild west critters like a roadrunner, horned lizard, and long-horned cattle. But when the rancher peeks into the oven, you can guess what happens. Out in the Wild Wild West, a rancher’s wife makes him a cowboy from gingerbread. The Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires, illustrated by Holly Berry. ![]()
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