Written and Illustrated by
C.W. Anderson
1959
While riding through the open country near his family's ranch house, Billy and his pony Blaze come across a dangerous mountain lion.
The book has some great black and white illustrations, and a rather 'bleh' story about a boy who deals with the obstacles of living in the open old west. We're told that the mountain lion is 'cruel' for attacking the cows (M, when asked, said that it isn't cruel, it's just "what the lion has to eat"), and in the end Jim (an older cowboy) says that he "got" the mountain lion and collected the big bounty.
There is a nice encounter where Billy and Blaze save a lost calf, showing that children have the power to do good things.
M says, "I liked it, I like Blaze the most. He's my favorite one in it."
H says, "I love the mountain lion. I want the book to go back to the library, because I really don't want it to."
glad to know that even at 4yoa M knows that sometimes even Lions need to eat..not like they can go get take-out
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