Cowboy Charlie: The Story of Charles M. Russell

by Jeanette Winter

Book Overview

Young Charles Russell wanted to be a cowboy, so just two weeks shy of his sixteenth birthday, the determined Charlie boarded a train heading to the frontier. There, in 1880, in the land of buffalo,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152008578
• ISBN13: 9780152008574
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.3" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Yeee Haw!

If you have read any other Jeanette Winter books, you know the quality and content are excellent. This book is no different. Cowboy Charlie is very special! It is a true Cowboy Story...the story of Charles Marion Russell, the great painter and sculptor, who was a cowboy, too! The sweet story shares how Charlie's parents wisely supported their son's dreams of the West and his artistic talent. The book's illustrations are a rich and colorful quilt that brings warmth to the story. Your budding artist should read this. Your little cowpoke will be encouraged to embrace his cowboy dreams in a new way. This is the stuff of great children's books. Get it.

Childrens book encourages them to follow their dreams

This is a delightful childrens book that should be in every school library. The simple story gives the very essence of the kind spirit of Charles M. Russell the Cowboy Artist,who loved children. Follow your Dreams,and use your talents is the theme to this uplifting gem of a book. The illustrations are brilliant and heartwarming...I bought an extra copy just so I could frame the images and hang them up to enjoy....they make me smile!