Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band

By Tony Hillerman

Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band give a quirky southwestern retelling of a classic children's tale, with a much more satisfactory ending. Delightful illustrations by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin, who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914001116
• ISBN13: 9780914001119
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Buffalo Medicine Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Not very good, but plenty loud

Tony Hillerman has assembled four down and out cowboy band wannabees, faintly reminiscent of some other musicians from Brementown, but perfectly at home among the cactus and mesas of the Southwest. Buster Mesquite's Band isn't very good, but it's plenty loud, and they are destined for adventure on their quirky journey to fame and fortune, helped along the way by their unabashed enthusiasm for their music and some plain old dumb luck. Those notorious bandits they stumble upon don't stand a chance when Buster's Band dazzles, or rather startles, them with their latest tune. Ernest Franklin's energetic illustrations make every page an eyeful that enhances Hillerman's spare and witty style of storytelling. Buster's Band gets a definite A for effort.Nancy TandbergNew Mexico Kids! magazine