A Gem of a Picture Book

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	• A Cowboy Christmas: The Miracle at Lone Pine Ridge Audrey Wood, Robert Florczak Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2001 - 48 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY GIFT

This is a touching story of perseverance and hope. I was looking for books to give as Christmas presents this year, and this really impressed me.

A Gem of a Picture Book

My sister sent this beautiful book to my children for Christmas. It's a stunner with complex, rich sentences, lush illustrations, and a storyline that includes flashbacks, foreshadowing, frame tales, and developed characters. My children, ages 3 and 6, love it, too. My daughter noticed that the cover of the book resembles worn leather--she's right, and the effect is wonderful. We read the note from the author and learned new things about cowboys and settlers (which I won't give away here). Suffice it to say that from now on, we're sleeping with horse hair ropes around our bedding!

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Beautiful Book

I purchased this book for my children this Christmas, and was just blown away by the illustrations. The detail is amazingly beautiful, and the story is very well written and developed. A definite must read each year now for our family.

When Evan, a fatherless boy, senses danger one Christmas Eve, his prayers help save his favorite cowboy, Cully, from a chilly death. They also set in motion a chain of happy events for Evan and his ma. The somewhat overwrought tale is nonetheless fluidly told, and Florczak's (previously teamed with Wood for The Rainbow Bridge) realistic oil paintings, aglow with light and shadow, make ample use of the Western setting. Scenes of cowboys camped around a fire inject a dose of humor, while stunning paintings of Cully's riderless horse on a snowy cliff and Evan's mother strolling with Cully under leafy birch trees convey the dramatic events. All ages.

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