One-Horse Town

In this here town, some rules are about to be broken . . .

Is Carousel Creek big enough for the both of them?

A horse named Ricky is excited leave the big city and live a quiet life in Carousel Creek with his cousin Nellie. But when he arrives, the sheriff turns him away because Carousel Creek is a one-horse town. And Ricky makes two! Rules are rules, after all.

But Ricky is as stubborn as a mule and won’t let this neigh-sayer put his country-living dreams out to pasture. So he takes a closer look at that rule book . . . and discovers a loophole big enough to lasso the sheriff’s so-called rules for good.

This calls for a showdown! That is, until they reckon that maybe some rules are fixin’ to get broken.

New York Times bestselling illustrator Jen Hill has created a punny picture book that also shares important lessons about thinking critically and updating rules for a modern context, instead of accepting that "it's always been that way."