Gather ‘round and listen to the adventures of a frustrated cowboy and his stubborn steer, and how difficult it can be to get home for supper! This latest children’s book by Davis Davis is a hoot! It captures the cowboy’s world as well as the energy of an ornery longhorn in a fun-filled tale of a battle of the wills. When Zeke, an old Texas cowboy, is ready for a hot bowl of chili, he must first get his newly purchased steer into the corral. By enlisting the help of a host of colorful characters, he finally gets his dinner--but not without the possibility of the antics starting all over again! Told in the author’s inimitable native Texan voice, this humorous story makes for great read-aloud fun.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Davis is the author of the Pelican award-winning books Ten Redneck Babies, which was named to the 2005 International Reading Association/Children’s Book Council Children’s Choices Top 100 List, and Jazz Cats, a 2005 Texas Golden Spur Award finalist, which was named to the 2002 International Reading Association Children’s Book Council Children’s Choices Top 100 List. He has written three books for Pelican’s Night Before Christmas Series: Nurse’s Night Before Christmas, Trucker’s Night Before Christmas, and Redneck Night Before Christmas.

ABOUT THE Illustrator
Alan Fearl Stacy is a self-taught artist who derived his style and techniques from a variety of ancient and modern sources. He worked in broadcast television as a graphic artist and as a makeup artist for music videos, commercials, and theatre for many years. As a self-employed illustrator and designer, Stacy has illustrated two nonfiction picture books and self-published several graphic-novel versions of Aesop’s fables.

TEXAS ZEKE AND THE LONGHORN
By David Davis
Illustrated by Alan Fearl Stacy
32 pp. 11 x 8½
31 color illus. Ages 5-8
ISBN: 1-58980-348-5
EAN: 978-1-58980-348-0