Lexie the Word Wrangler

Author  Rebecca Van Slyke Illustrated by  Jessie Hartland
Lexie the Word Wrangler

This clever celebration of words and their meanings features a strong cowgirl who wrangles words alongside cattle.
 
Lexie is the best wrangler west of the Mississippi—word wrangler, that is. She watches over baby letters while they grow into words and ties shorter words together into longer ones; she herds words into sentences, hitches sentences together, and pens them all in to tell a story. But lately, something seems off at the ranch. First the d goes missing from her bandana, leaving her with a banana to tie around her neck, and soon afterward every S-T-A-R in the sky turns into R-A-T-S. There’s no doubt about it—there’s a word rustler causing this ruckus, and Lexie plans to track him down…