Let’s Sing a Lullaby with the Brave Cowboy by Thomas - OPTIONAL

Thomas, Jan  Let’s Sing a Lullaby with the Brave Cowboy  Beach Lane Books, 2012.  $12.99  PICTURE BOOK  Content: G.  

Cowboy is trying to sing a sweet lullaby to help his cows go to sleep, but every time he gets to the end of this song he screams “eeek” and scare the cows.  At first he stops the song because he thinks that he sees a spider, then he thinks he spots a snake and then he thinks it’s a bear.  Each time the spider is actually a flower, the snake a stick and the bear another cow.  He finally convinces himself that everything is fine, when actually there is a wolf.  Thank goodness wolves really like lullabies.  In the end the wolf snuggles in with the cows and the cowboy to say goodnight.  

This is a cute book that young readers will find funny.  The illustrations are very basic, but they are bright and the cowboy and cows faces are animated.  The wolf going to sleep with the cows seemed like a really bad idea to me, but that was the ending of the story in which everything was all right.  

EL (K-3)-OPTIONAL.