About this item
A modern tall tale that brings together dinosaurs and cowboys. Back when the old, old west was still as green as a bristlecone pine and cowboys were as common as warts on a Stegosaurus, one cowboy stood out among all cowboys. With the strength of an Iguanodon and the speed of a Utah Raptor, lasso-tossing, Pleiosaurus-riding Rocky is legendary. There isn?t a dinosaur in the land that would think of giving Rocky a lick of trouble. That is, until he meets T. Rex, the rip-roarin?est, snip-snortin?est, flame-breathin?est reptilian ever to stomp the earth. But Rocky is up to the challenge, and his efforts to tame T. Rex take the disagreeing duo on a Western adventure of epic proportion.
About the Author
For author Carol Greathouse, a starred review in Publisher's Weekly set the tone for the debut of her first children's book: The Dinosaur Tamer. "Greathouse's humorous tall tale language never falters and readers will relish cinematic scenes of Rocky and T. Rex tussling, creating several American landmarks in the process," the review concludes. Greathouse is a Pennsylvania native and graduate of Penn State. Her previous writing centered around her love of agriculture and rural living. She writes from her western Pennsylvania farmhouse which she shares with her seven children, three dogs, and oodles of books.
