What's Everybuggy Reading: Sonya
A Night on the Range
by Aaron Frisch
Illustrated by Chris Sheban
Creative Editions, 2010
I hope you enjoyed all the cowboy adventures in this month's Spider! But I would like to take this opportunity to remind everybuggy that cowGIRLS rock, too (like the cowgirl in "Cowboy Saddle Song," p. 9)! O.K., you may now return to my awesome book review.
This book is about a real-life cowboy named Cole and his trusty mount Bull’s Eye. O.K., so maybe the range is actually Cole’s backyard, and Bull’s Eye is his pet dog, but Cole does act an awful lot like a cowboy. He wears his cowboy hat and boots every day, ropes riding lawn mowers, and rides his neighbor’s fence looking for rustlers. He even brushes his teeth with beef jerky—yuck! Most importantly, he watches old Westerns every night before bed. One night, he decides that to be a real cowboy like the ones in the movies, he needs to sleep outside on the wide open range. So he says so long to his dad, grabs his little doggie, and heads out to a spot in his backyard right between the garden and the clothesline.
The range becomes sort of a spooky place at night, and things seem different than they are in the daylight. But, as it turns out, real cowboys also like to stay inside and eat popcorn with their dads. Mmm, that sounds doggone delicious—I’m going to go ask Miro to pop me up a buttery cowboy, erm, cowGIRL, snack!
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