I Want to be a Cowgirl
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This issue's cover is from Celia Ree's Sorceress. Celia Rees is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. Thanks to Bloomsbury Children's Books for their help with this March cover.
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I Want to be a Cowgirl
Illustrated by Tony Ross
It is hard to be a cowgirl if you live in a 20-storey flat, but not if you have the imagination of this urban cowgirl or, Tony Ross. After all you can wander past graffiti-daubed cliffs riding your piebald dog, play your guitar in front of a campfire leaning up against dustbin boulders, wear hairy chaps cut from dad's shag pile carpet or hold up iron-toting Dad with a pair of six-shooting bananas. Ross has tremendous fun with Willis's rollicking rhyme about a little girl who doesn't want to be a good girl, a girly girl or a schoolgirl but a Wild West heroine. Especially recommended for feisty females of all ages.
