A cumulative tale about how difficult it can be to get home for dinner! Old Texas cowboy Zeke is just trying to get home for a bowl of chili, but to do so, he must encourage his newly purchased steer to enter the corral. He finally gets his bowl of chili, but not without the threat of more repetitive and rhythmic shenanigans.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Pelican Publishing Co .

David Davis has written several children's picture books and has had titles named in Children's Choice Top 100 list. An active presenter at schools, conferences and libraries, David lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Learn more about him at www. davidrdavis. com. Ben Galbraith is an author and illustrator, he lives in New Zealand. Find out more at www. bengalbraith. co. nz. David Davis is the author of almost a dozen books with Pelican, including Jazz Cats, a 2002 Children's Book Choice selection; Librarian's Night Before Christmas; Nurse's Night Before Christmas; Ten Redneck Babies: A Southern Counting Book; Texas Aesop's Fables; Texas Mother Goose; and Texas Zeke and the Longhorn. Four of his books have earned spots on the Accelerated Reader list. He resides in Fort Worth, Texas. Alan Fearl Stacy is a self-taught artist who derived his style and techniques from a variety of ancient and modern sources. He worked in broadcast television as a graphic artist and as a makeup artist for music videos, commercials, and theatre for many years. As a self-employed illustrator and designer, Stacy has illustrated two nonfiction picture books and self-published several graphic-novel versions of Aesopis fables.