"A Place to Hang Your Hat" - Western Books for Elementary Readers

Picture Books

• Cow Boy Is Not a Cowboy, Gregory Barrington, print
• Buster Goes to Cowboy Camp, Denise Fleming, print
• Cowboy Sam and Those Confounded Secrets, Kitty Griffin, print
• Puss in Cowboy Boots, Jan Huling, print
• Every Cowgirl Loves a Rodeo, Rebecca Janni, print
• Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse, Rebecca Janni, print
• Little Red Cowboy Hat, Susan Lowell, print
• The Zebra-Riding Cowboy, Angela Shelf Medearis, print
• The Halloween Kid, Rhode Montijo, print
• Birthday Mice, Bethany Roberts, print
• Alice from Dallas, Marilyn Sadler, print
• The Gingerbread Cowboy, Janet Squires, print
• Sixteen Cows, Lisa Wheeler, print
• Going West, Laura Ingalls Wilder, print
• I Want to Be a Cowgirl, Jeanne Willis, print
• Buffalo Thunder, Patricia Wittman, print

Emerging Readers

• Wagon Wheels, Barbara Bremmer, print
• The Golly Sisters Go West, Betsy Byars, print
• Wagon Train, Sydelle Kramer, print
• Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa, Erica Silverman, print

Nonfiction

• The Wild Mustang, Chris Duffy, print
• In the Buffalo Pasture, Patricia M. Stockland, print
• The Original Cowgirl, Heather Lang, print
• A Little House Traveler, Laura Ingalls Wilder, print
• Buffalo Bird Girl, S.D. Nelson, print
• Charro, George Ancona, print
• Going West, Carol A. Johmann, print
• Bandannas, Chaps, and Ten-Gallon Hats, Bobbie Kalman, print
• Cowboy, Eyewitness Books, print
• ​Reflections of a Black Cowboy, Robert H. Miller, print
• Black Heroes of the Wild West, James Otis Smith, print | ebook

Chapter Books

• Western Pony, Jeanne Betancourt, print
• Ghosts Don’t Ride Wild Horses, Debbie Dadey, print
• The Quilt Walk, Sandra Dallas, print | ebook
• Cowboy Pug, Laura James, print
• Buffalo Before Breakfast, Mary Pope Osborne, print | ebook | eaudio
• Twister on Tuesday, Mary Pope Osborne, print | ebook | eaudio

Movies

• All about Cowboys for Kids, part 1 dvd & part 2 dvd
• Dino Dan: Cowboys vs Dinosaurs, dvd
• Dora the Explorer: Cowgirl Dora, dvd

Printable list (PDF) to help you find these items in the library!