Summary:
The Toad brothers are wreaking havoc in Drywater Gulch when a boy with no experience but immense knowledge of dinosaurs rides into town on his tortoise and declares himself the new sheriff.
Booklist Reviews
Drywater Gulch is in a big ol' heap of trouble. The Toad brothers are raisin' heck. Why, them fools would rightly "steal your gold, kiss your cattle, and insult your chili." Mayor McMuffin is plumb panicked until boy-aged Sheriff Ryan rides into town. On a tortoise. ("Give him a minute," writes Shea, tracking his progress across two spreads.) The sheriff has a suspicion: it ain't Toads doin' the stealin' and kissin' and insultin'—it's dinosaurs! See, it's T. rex what done blasted open the jail, not dynamite, and velociraptors who gone ahead and hog-tied them victims, not no bandits. Well, the Toads don't cotton to that! Hoppin' angry that the "dineysaurs" are gettin' all the credit, they hotfoot their way into the jail. That's when the rootin'-tootin' varmints realize they been had. Dang it! Shea's enjoyably bizarre take on a good old fashioned hoodwinkin' finds a perfect executor in Smith, whose desert-hued illustrations have all the hard corners and sneering lines of a wanted poster. Aw shucks, now Sheriff Ryan is probably blushing. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews.
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