2008 Nominee: Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Partners

Whether they are playing hide-and-seek, getting new shoes, or tending to challenges out on the prairie, best friends Cowgirl Kate and her trusty companion, cowhorse Cocoa, remain determined to do everything together.

Author: Erica Silverman
          Biography and photo

Illustrator: Betsy Lewin

Biography and photo

Book Activities

• Discussion questions: What does it mean to be partners? Compare to Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs.
  
• Language arts: Read the first Kate and Cocoa book. Learn cowboy and cowgirl words such a giddyup, rodeo, doggies.
  
• Writing: What would happen if you found a lucky horse shoe?
  
• Math: Find out how horses are measured. Why are they measured that way?
  
• Science:
  
• Social Studies: Research ranches, cowboys and girls.
  
• Drama:
  
• Cooking/Food: Find out about the foods cowboys ate on the trail.
  
• Art: Make partner pictures. Each person draws a horse and colors. Then swap pictures and draw Cowgirl Kate. Both artists sign the pictures.
  
• Music: Sing cowboy songs such as Home, Home on the Range.
  
• Movement: Play hide and seek at recess. Gallop like horses.
  
• Activity: Reading Rodeo where kids dress as cowboys/cowgirls and read with partners.
  

Related Books

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa by Erica Silveman
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa–School Days by Erica Silverman (coming soon)
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch by Trinka Hakes Noble
Yippee-yay! A Book about Cowboys and Cowgirls by Gail Gibbons
Little Black, a Pony by Walter Farley

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