Cowpoke Clyde Books

In order from Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg to Cowpoke Clyde Rides the Range

picture • 32 Pages

4.6

Series

Book #1

Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg

Written by Lori Mortensen & illustrated by Michael Allen Austin

4 - 8

Reading age

Page count

Words per page

May 14, 2013

Publication date

Hardcover

$16.99

$15.97

Summary

Cowpoke Clyde’s house was completely clean—he’d even shooed off the horseflies: “Then right behind his cookin’ pot, / he spied one thing he’d plumb forgot: / ol’ Dawg, his faithful, snorin’ friend, / all caked with mud from end to end.” Needless to say, Dawg wakes up and runs. The chase that follows—with page-turn surprises—makes for a hilarious shaggy-dog story involving fleas, a hog, bribery, cats, deception, and a mule. The rhyming stanzas are pitch-perfect, Texas-style, and plumb near cry out to be read aloud. Austin’s expressive acrylic and colored-pencil caricatures of Cowpoke Clyde and his menagerie are priceless. A storytime shoo-in!

Cowpoke Clyde Series

Published from 2013 - 2016

2 books

picture • 32 Pages

4.6

Series

Hardcover

$16.99$15.97

picture • 32 Pages

Series

Hardcover

$16.99$15.80

Year	Title	Pages
2013	Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg	32
2016	Cowpoke Clyde Rides the Range	32

The Creatives Behind the Books

Author

Lori Mortensen

Lori Mortensen is an award-winning children’s book author of more than 70 books and over 350 stories and articles. Recent picture book releases include If Wendell Had a Walrus (Henry Holt), Chicken Lily, (Henry Holt), Mousequerade Ball (Bloomsbury) illustrated by New York Times bestselling illustrator Betsy Lewin, and Cowpoke Clyde Rides the Range (Clarion, 2016) a sequel to Cowpoke Clyde &amp;amp; Dirty Dawg, one of Amazon’s Best Picture Books of 2013. When she’s not letting her cat in, or out, or in, she’s tapping away at her computer, conjuring, coaxing, and prodding her latest stories to life. Today, she lives in Northern California with her family and their mega-fluffy cat, Max.

Illustrator

Michael Allen Austin

Michael Allen Austin is the award-winning illustrator of several children’s books, including Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break If You Want to Survive the School Bus. Publishers Weekly has exclaimed that his illustrations are “wild and wily,” and Booklist has called his art “unusual and exuberant.” He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Kim, and their sheepdog, Riley. Visit him online at austinillustration.com and on Instagram @michaelallenaustin.