Ranch Wife's Slant

Tag: children’s books

  • Levi’s Lost Calf

    Last weekend at the South Dakota Young Farmers and Ranchers conference I finally met journalist, blogger, author, and rancher, Amanda Radke from Mitchell, SD in person. She and I were both speakers at the conference and we had an opportunity to visit a little bit. I have read her articles in the Tri-State Livestock News…

  • One of My Favorite Stories: Cowboy Country

    Some of my favorite moments spent with my kids are the times I read to them before naptime and bedtime when they were little. They had their favorite books and I had mine and this is one of mine: Cowboy Country, by Ann Herbert Scott. I like this author and I have another book by…

  • Why Cowboys Sleep with Their Boots On

    One of the books I used to read to my kids when they were tots was Why Cowboys Sleep with Their Boots On, about a cowpuncher named Slim Jim Watkins; written by Laurie Lazzaro Knowlton and illustrated by James Rice. I liked this story because I could relate to Slim Jim Watkins and I liked…

  • One Story Book I Never Got Tired of Reading

    Even though Someday Rider by Anne Herbert Scott is a children’s book, it was one book I never got tired of reading to my kids when they were little.  I read it to them a lot, and it was also the book I picked to read to my kids’ class as part of our school’s participation…

  • The Cowboy Book

    About twelve years ago, before my husband and I moved into the house he grew up in, his dad had an attic cleaning day to clear out what had been stored away for years. My sister-in-law spearheaded the cleaning project and found this book in the attic. She remembered it being one of my husband’s…