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Moser, Lisa

Cowboy Boyd and Mighty Calliope

32 pp. | Random | August, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-87056-9 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-375-97056-6 $20.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Sebastiaan Van Doninck. Aspiring young rancher Boyd fails to impress anyone with his slow-as-molasses "horse," Calliope. (Readers will see what, hilariously, none of the characters do: Calliope is a rhinoceros.) But after the cattle escape, Calliope demonstrates her lone talent. Boyd's blind loyalty to his underachieving--if momentarily triumphant--friend is downright touching, and Van Doninck's illustrations depict ranch life as equal parts scrappy and snuggly.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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