Real Cowboys by Kate Hoefler, illustrated by Jonathan Bean
Cowboys are what America is all about, right? Rough, tough, independent, rugged western individuals who eat nails for breakfast?
Well, real cowboys "think of others: of the calf stranded on the ridge, and their dog coaxing it down -- of how hundreds of moving cattle will feel about the sound of distant thunder.
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Real cowboys are gentle. (...) Real cowboys want peace. They don't want stampedes, where all the cattle spook, and thunder over the earth, and scatter in dust storms."
But sometimes it happens. Some of those cattle and dogs are never found, and cowboys think of the from time to time when everything else on the prairie is quiet. Real cowboys cry.
Real cowboys also take care of the earth, and take turns. They can be strong and tough and homesick. They are artists and storytellers. They are diverse, and they are girls, too.
Wonderful book.
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