Published: 2009
Ages: 9-12
Price: $16.99
Category: Juvenile Fiction
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John Lomax grew up in Texas singing folk songs, tunes, and ballads to all of his activities on the ranch. He sang songs about planting, and songs about chores, like churning butter and herding the cows. When life took him to college his professor laughed at his songs and turned him away. Discouraged John burnt every last page of his songs. Not long after he was to create a project about a place he called home. John knew Texas was always his home, and vowed to collect as many cowboy songs as he could from the west. He received letters of all types of cowboy songs, some funny, short, long, and sad. His project turned out to be great and everybody enjoyed it. John then decided to create a book of all of the old cowboy songs, so he traveled back through Texas with a recorder and notebook to record songs from all different people. John got enough songs to make his book full of cowboy songs. Texas is in John’s heart and his songs became a part of his life. Home on the Range is a historical fiction book with a collaboration of poetry, illustrations, and a storyline in one. The poems complement the story by sharing some of his own cowboy songs that he sung, and the ones he collected.
Published: 2009 Ages: 9-12 Price: $16.99 Category: Juvenile Fiction
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