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claudiaswisher 's review for:
The Dirty Cowboy
by Adam Rex, Amy Timberlake
Funny, clever...laugh-out-loud. A perfect blend of picture and words. Both enhance the other. On the surface, a cowboy takes his annual bath in the river and has to wrestle his dog for his clothes. But, under the surface is some tasty writing ("A flurry of flies flocked round his body buzzing so persistently that he experienced a distinct loss of hearing in his left ear...where was that sweaty, wild-boar-like smell that clung to the cowboy like a second pair of clothes...if a cowboy didn't smell like a cow, it ain't a cowboy...")and some of the most irreverent, coy, sly illustrations I've seen...
The cowboy is nekkid for most of the book, there's no doubt. BUT the naughty bits are always covered...by bubbles, by a bullfrog, a flock of quail, the cowboy's dog's tail..the game of 'peek a boo' is as much fun as the language! I had a ball reading this...
Looks like the trusty cow dog has a cataract...or his eyes are two different colors.
I would love to teach this -- the diction, the ironies, the figurative language all enrich this. And the illustrations are flat-out hilarious!!
No wonder SOME people are offended...it's funny, clever and good. Can't have kids reading something like this.
The cowboy is nekkid for most of the book, there's no doubt. BUT the naughty bits are always covered...by bubbles, by a bullfrog, a flock of quail, the cowboy's dog's tail..the game of 'peek a boo' is as much fun as the language! I had a ball reading this...
Looks like the trusty cow dog has a cataract...or his eyes are two different colors.
I would love to teach this -- the diction, the ironies, the figurative language all enrich this. And the illustrations are flat-out hilarious!!
No wonder SOME people are offended...it's funny, clever and good. Can't have kids reading something like this.