Decorated Horses
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This nonfiction picture book about horses has a fresh focus: how people over the ages have decorated horses in special ways. Organized into three categories—warfare and hunting, performance and competition, performance, and ceremony—the book introduces horses such as the chariot-pulling war horse of the Persians to the rose-decorated winner of the Kentucky Derby.
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Dorothy Hinshaw Patent has written more than one hundred books for children–including Dog on Board: The True Story of Eclipse, the Bus-Riding Dog, and the ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book Dogs on Duty: Soldiers’ Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond. Dorothy is a founding board member of iNK Think Tank, an online company dedicated to connecting educators and young readers with dynamic nonfiction books and their authors. Dorothy lives in Montana with her food-writer husband, Greg. For more information, check out her author page on Facebook and visit her website, DorothyHinshawPatent.com, and her blog, DogWriterDorothy.com.
Jeannie Brett studied at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Minneapolis College of Art & Design. She has illustrated 16 books including L Is for Lobster: A Maine Alphabet (Sleeping Bear Press, 2001), M Is for Mayflower: A Massachusetts Alphabet (Sleeping Bear Press, 2002), and My Cat, Coon Cat (Islandport Press, 2011). She wrote and illustrated Little Maine (Sleeping Bear Press, 2010) and Wild About Bears (Charlesbridge Publishing 2014). She lives in Montana and Maine with her husband and her muse, a Maine Coon Cat.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781580893626
- Publication Date
- February 10, 2015
- Publisher
- Charlesbridge
- Text Details
- Text typeset in Palatino Sans
- Illustration Details
- The full-page watercolor paintings are enhanced with gouache, pastel, and colored pencil.
- Page Count
- 48
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 8 - 12 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2013049021
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 1148809082
- Lexile® Level
- 1180L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~Z+
- Est. ATOS® Book Level
- ~8.7
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