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| Author | Dennis Rodman and Dustin Warburton |
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| Illustrator | Daniel Monroe |
Dennis the Wild Bull is a children's book co-written by Dennis Rodman and Dustin Warburton and illustrated by Dan Monroe. [1] It is written in rhyme with many color illustrations.
The story is about a bull named Dennis who is captured for the rodeo, but escapes back into the wild. He befriends a couple of other bulls at the rodeo, a Mexican and a White, and takes them with him when he returns to his family. Rodman described the book as showing that it is "OK to be different". [1]
Dennis the Wild Bull was featured on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon . [2] [3]
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