Review: The Dirty Cowboy

The Dirty Cowboy by Amy Timberlake
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Challenged as "pornographic": a word the challengers apparently don't know the meaning of. Although the cowboy is nude for most of the story, Rex has artfully and amusingly managed to hide his genitalia and even his butt crack in every picture. There may have been man nipples, though. I'm not sure.

***

There's a cowboy in New Mexico who sets out to take his annual bath in the river. Trouble ensues, comically. The text seems slightly off: it's got a good voice to the tale, but it seems to broken up strangely, so that some pages are rather dense with text.

But nevermind! The cowboy looks a bit like Alfred E. Neuman when he's clean, the dog looks like a big bad wolf when he's at work, and there's lots of small critters and pests to discover in every spread. Fun to read aloud and get all twangy with. Lovely attention to location-accurate flora and fauna, much appreciated by the desert-fond among us.

Library copy.

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