His medium, with its old-fashioned woodcut flavor, works well for biography in general and this one in particular the fluid lines and energetic cross-hatchings create a sense of motion that reinforce the depictions of the cowhand's active life.
Andrea Pinkney's informed, colorful text, peppered with cowboy slang ("Hot-diggity-dewlap!"), provides a lively foil for Brian Pinkney's distinctive scratchboard illustrations. The husband-and-wife team behind Dear Benjamin Banneker and Alvin Ailey continue their superb profiles of noteworthy African Americans with this rip-roarin' salute to a legendary cowboy.
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