Cowboy Sam and Those Confounded Secrets

Having stored the secrets of all his friends of Dry Gulch in his very special hat, Cowboy Sam gets worried when it gets to the point of bursting as he fears that its explosion of information may cause complete havoc in his quiet town.

Mike Wohnoutka received his B.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design and later moved to Minneapolis to negin his career in illustration. In addition to doing advertising and editorial illustration, Mike also works part time as a product/graphic designer for a gift company. His work has been published in children's magazines such as Spider. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Kathy Combs was born in Louisiana but moved to Texas when she was three years old and has been a Texan ever since. This is her first children's book.

Kitty Griffin is a freelance writer and journalist who has written articles for numerous publications in the Pittsburgh area and currently teaches screenwriting at a local college. She began writing for children in 1991 after being awarded a scholarship to a children's writers workshop at Rice University. She lives with her husband and a menagerie of animals, including a ferret, in Washington County, Pennsylvania.