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K-3
Illustrated by
Tom Curry.
As a birthday gift, Mama asks her childish adult sons, cowboys Clement and Clyde, not to squabble. A mellow breeze inspires their verbal "besting" ("Why, one day it was so windy . . ."), which intensifies with the wind. Only when a gust makes Mama airborne do the men learn cooperation. Illustrations depicting the ranch in turmoil are as lively and hilarious as the brothers' hyperbole.