Juvenile Fiction

Against her better judgement, Sally May leaves the ranch in Slim's care. While Slim naps, Hank and Little Alfred subject strawberry ice cream to rigorous product testing and then go for a ride in a mysterious spaceship. But it's when Slim finally awakens...

Wonder if cattle rustlers still exist? Well, they do. Hank and Slim go on a camping trip to see if they can catch the mysterious stranger who is stealing calves. Hank devours all of Slim's camp meat (weenies) and chews the tent rope in half during a...

Pete warns Hank that a stray dog has invaded the ranch and is lurking inside the machine shed. Naturally, Hank goes to investigate, and sure enough, he finds the Phantom Dog--in an old mirror stored in the machine shed. But then Drover looks into the...

Hank encounters the weirdest cat he's ever seen, when he, Slim, Drover, and Little Alfred head over to the Hodge's place to feed the cattle. Hank gets bumped out of the back of the Cammo-Stealth army truck, Mary D. Cat is the only one around to help keep...

While Slim and Loper are away from the ranch for three days, Hank suffers from - is it a double bumblebee sting, or much worse? It falls upon Sally May to nurse the stricken Hank back to health. Her patience and compassion are seriously tested, while the...

Slim rescues an orphan raccoon, and much to Hank's dismay, everyone on the ranch is enchanted with the "cute" baby coon with the beady little eyes and amazing little hands. Yet, little do they know that every time midnight rolls around, Eddy the Rac is...

Hank and Drover must deal with all sorts of strange phenomena. They must deal with an attack of the terrible Charlie Monsters and a polka-dot midget. Then they must gather every ounce of courage they have to save the ranch from the Swirling Killer...

Quail season has started. Plato the Birddog is impressing the lovely Miss Beulah with his pointing ability, when Hank tries to impress her with some bird work of his own. He chases a flock of noisy, wild turkeys away from the house. However, Sally May...

Hank is the proud owner of three precious steak bones and protects his fortune, burying them in Sally May's garden. He meets Dog Pound Ralph. Returns to the garden... The bones are gone! He finds an empty Vienna sausage can in each hole. A night-stalking...

Hank discovers an elixir that gives him a huge burst of energy-Sally May's bucket of root stimulator. It gave him such a kick, he challenges Rufus, the Doberman Pincher to a fight, only to discover that Sally May has filled the bucket with mopwater. Big...

Marauding trespassers are threatening to stampede the cattle. It's Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, to the rescue as he: tracks down enemy agent, Mysterious Esther, escapes the relentless Vampire Vacuum Sweeper, and confronts Buster and his gang...

Hank has his paws full when he discovers a mother cat and six kittens trespassing in a haystack on his very own ranch. (Have we mentioned cowdogs don't like cats?) Join Hank as he is trapped in a runaway pickup, surrounded by a herd of stray cats, and...

Hank's day begins defending the ranch against a vicious one-eyed robot. After that exhausting morning, Hank supervises Little Alfred's fishing trip. That routine expedition turns into a first-class crisis when Hank reels in more than he bargained for. A...

Someone has been raiding Sally May's garbage barrels! Hank knows the crime is the work of a notorious gang of raccoons. However, in a tragic case of mistaken identity, Hank takes the heat. Worse, Rip and Snort, the coyote brothers are planning to pull an...

Sally May and Loper head off to visit the relatives, leaving Slim in charge of Little Alfred. Hank's sure trouble will come knocking. First, Slim is struck down with the measles. Then a blizzard hits the ranch, trapping them in the house with no heat or...

When the ranch falls on hard times in the winter, Slim the cowboy decides not to be a burden. Slim packs up and hits the road in search of another job. Hank and Drover hitch a ride, thinking they're headed for town. Are they going to Canada? Are those...

There's a raging rottweiler named Bruiser loose on the ranch, and it's up to Hank to teach this visiting pooch some manners. It's rumored that Bruiser is all talk and no action. However, when he attacks a defenseless fawn, Hank's not so sure. Does Hank...

Hank the Cowdog is having a string of rotten luck. First, he accidentally gets trapped in a cattle trailer and ends up stranded in town. Then, the dogcatcher picks him up and locks him in a cage! However, fate turns around when he meets up with Dogpound...

Suspicious sounds coming from near the clothesline, leads to a midnight investigation of the ranch. Before he knows it, Hank finds himself caught up with his old friend Eddy the Rac and face-to-face with one of a dog's greatest enemies: the dreaded...

On the first day of quail season Plato, the Bird Dog, is missing. At first, Hank is willing to let him stay lost. But when Beulah pleads for help, Hank caves in and takes off in search of Plato. Before he can catch a scent of the spotted bird dog, he...

It's winter in the Texas Panhandle, and the ranch is covered in snow and ice. Hank decides to follow Pete the Barncat's advice and bravely escorts Sally May's car down the slick road. Before Hank realizes what's happening, Sally May's car skids into a...

It's Hank's job to clear the ranch of all intruders--and that includes gophers. But when Hank's efforts causes a stampede in the middle of the cattle roundup, Loper decides that he wants Hank to learn some manners, so he's sending him...

When Hank hears a rumor that the sky is going to fall from the ranch's resident rooster, he is naturally a bit skeptical. But then a report from Pete the Barncat and a strange dream seem to support the theory, and Hank realizes that he'd better take the...

Someone has been stealing feed out of the feed shed, and Hank knows that it's his job to do whatever he can to help nab the culprit. Slim sets a live-animal trap in the shed, and Hank checks it in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, the trap is a...

Hank runs into a dispute with a giant bullfrog over the Emerald Pond. Then, there's a battle with a...Monster. It's too scary to tell what kind of monster it is! However, things get really tough when Hank is entrusted with the job of guarding Little...

Sally May takes the family on a vacation, but there's never a dull moment on the ranch. Hank learns about a tool thief on the loose who uses a monkey to help him do his dirty work. And before long, Hank finds himself face-to-face with the pilfering...

Hank the Cowdog is about to go on the ride of his life! When Slim's pickup truck breaks down, the ranch ends up with a brand-new model on loan while the old one gets fixed. But a ranch dog like Hank isn't used to power windows and door locks, and he gets...

This is no ordinary, run-of-the-mill ranch intrigue. No sir, this is a real, honest-to-goodness archaeological adventure! When an old friend of Slim's starts an archaeological dig near the ranch, it doesn't take long before little Alfred gets caught up...

The weather on Hank's West Texas ranch is hot and dry. So dry, in fact, that they've got to be on the lookout for prairie fires. So Hank bravely takes on the role of Head of Fire Safety and gets to work. But patrolling for fires is dull, and it's hard to...

Everyone knows that a dog's gotta chew what a dog's gotta chew. But when Hank's doggie urges have him chomping on plastic including Little Alfred's toy truck Hank knows he's got to get things under control. Then Beulah the long-eared lady dog of his...