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The Toughest Cowboy
or How The Wild West Was Tamed
Author: John Frank
Illustrated by Zachery Pullen
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (2004)

Awards:
Beehive Award Master List (UT)
Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book Award Nominee (KS)
Buckaroo Book Award Runner-Up (WY)
Bulletin Blue Ribbon
Golden Sower Masterlist (NE)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee
Texas Bluebonnet Master List

Excerpt from the Publisher:

Grizz Brickbottom was the toughest cowboy ever to drive a herd of cattle across the open range. He drank a quart of Tabasco sauce a day, flossed his teeth with barbed wire, and kept a rattlesnake in his bedroll to cool his feet at night. Grizz was so tough he could grind a branding iron into a belt buckle -- with the stubble on his chin.

About the Author:
John Frank is an accomplished poet as well as an author of humorous stories. His 2001 picture book The Tomb of the Boy King was proclaimed "a mesmerizing epic poem" by Publisher's Weekly. He hangs his hat in Kirkland, Washington.

About the Illustrator:
Zachery Pullen's witty, character-oriented illustrations have been featured in Sports Illustrated, the New York Times Book Review, and the Wall Street Journal. He hails from beneath the big skies of Wyoming-a fact clearly evident in these paintings-and currently lives in upstate New York with his wife, Renate. This is his first pcture book.

Hardcover. 48 pages. Ages 6-8 Grades 1-3