I Wanna Be a Cowgirl
I Wanna Be a Cowgirl
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Author(s): DiTerlizzi, Angela
ISBN No.: 9781481452991
Pages: 40
Year: 201711
Format: Picture Book
Price: $ 27.59
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

A girl with pink skin, tousled hair, and eager black eyes imagines life as a cowgirl "way out west," and it's pretty sweet. She saddles up her stick pony and heads to the backyard to milk the cows (two rubber gloves on a clothesline stand in for udders) and "take a bath/ right in the creek!" (a backyard wading pool), before moseying home for a well-earned night's sleep. DiTerlizzi's rhyming text is simple and direct, with the requisite down home lilt ("I'll check in on my chicken coops./ I'll make my rope do loop-de-loops--/ a lasso spinnin', makin' hoops"). In her first picture book, Vukovic (the Jasmine Toguchi series) depicts her stylish heroine in a wide range of framings--she comes across as wholly independent and powered by boundless, sunny energy. But what gives the pages the strongest impact--and a vibe of vintage commercial art--is the combination of a breezy sketchlike style and a limited palette: red for anything associated with cowgirl fantasy, and grassy green for just about everything else.


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