Format:
Book
Author:
Bowman, Donna Janell author.
Title:
Step right up : how Doc and Jim Key taught the world about kindness / by Donna Janell Bowman ; illustrated by Daniel Minter.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Lee & Low Books Inc., [2016]
Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Summary:
"A picture book biography of Dr. William Key, a former slave and self-trained veterinarian who taught his horse, Jim, to read and write and who together with Jim became one of the most famous traveling performance acts around the turn of the twentieth century. Includes afterword and author's sources"
Target Audience Note:
Ages 8-12
Grades 3-7
Subjects:
Key, Bill, 1833-1909 -- Juvenile literature.
Key, Bill, 1833-1909.
Beautiful Jim Key (Horse) -- Juvenile literature.
Humane education -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Horses -- Training -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Horse trainers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Human-animal communication -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Human-animal relationships -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Horse trainers.
Horses -- Training.
Beautiful Jim Key (Horse)
Humane education.
Human-animal communication.
Human-animal relationships.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Booklist, September 01, 2016
Publishers Weekly, August 15, 2016
Kirkus Reviews, August 01, 2016
Horn Book Guide, May 01, 2017
Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee 2018-2019
LCCN:
2015030604
ISBN:
9781620141489
Other Number:
918940761
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
106746
Call Number:
J 179 BOW
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1