Cowgirl Rosie and Her Five Baby Bison

By Stephen Gulbis

Book Overview

In the summer of 1907, a madcap brigade inaugurated the first international motor rally from Peking to Paris. The race included only five cars and their crews who wrote their agreed code of conduct on the back of a menu the night before the start. The only navigational aids were the sun and telegraph poles. Ninety years later, the race ran again. Rosie Thomas and her companion, Phil Bowen a thirty-year old climber, pearl-diver, charter-boat skipper and photographer were two of those daring enough to go for the challenge. On 6 September 1997, an assembly 110 vintage cars gathered in Peking, with the finish line in Paris lying 45 days and 16,000 kilometres ahead halfway across the world. The excitement of the daily time challenge, the strange camaraderie, the test of sleeping outdoors, in flea-pit hotels, in foreign lands, is more than matched by Rosie's own internal journey, including a near death experience at the top of the Himalayas.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316647128
• ISBN13: 9780316647120
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

cowgirl story book

A very cute, fun, and unusual story about a cowgirl and her baby bison. The story is well written and the illustrations are great! This book was a gift for my 5 year old niece, but even my 9 year old daughter enjoyed the story and pictures!

Charmingly presented, highly-spirited and highly recommended

Cowgirl Rose takes her five baby bison (Bigwig, Bonnie, Beefy, Butch, and Baby B) everywhere. But one day, on the way to visit Sheriff Joe, all of them disappear! Will Cowgirl Rosie and Sheriff Joe be able to outsmart Snakey Jake and get the baby bison back? Written and illustrated by Stephen Gulbis, Cowgirl Rose And Her Five Baby Bison is a wonderfully entertaining, charmingly presented, highly-spirited and highly recommended picturebook for young readers preschool through first grade.