Cowboy Ned & Andy

Cowboy Ned's birthday is tomorrow, but he's sad because nobody is around to celebrate. To cheer him up, his good friend Andy the horse journeys into the desert to find some birthday cake. But when Andy finds a banjo-playing cowboy who is as old as the hills, he learns something very important about birthdays.

This is the critically acclaimed first book from author David Ezra Stein, whose work has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.