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I Want to be a Cowgirl

by Jeanne Willis · 2001

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Meet a city girl with a big Wild West dream.

"I don't want to be a good girl-

Good girls have no fun.

I can't play quiet games indoors,

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I love the rain and sun.

I don't want to be a girly girl

Who likes to sit and chat.

I just want to be a cowgirl, Daddy,

What's so wrong with that?"

From the window of a high-rise city apartment, a little girl imagines a very different view and dreams of a very different life, but does it have to be just a dream?

The big city meets the wild Wild West in Jeanne Willis's lyrical text, accompanied by hilarious illustrations from Tony Ross.

Genre
westernwesternMore like thisLess of this
Themes
cowboycowboyMore like thisLess of thisimaginationimaginationMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages

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