Wild Horses (Road to Reading) by Stanley George Edward (2001-04-02) Paperback

by George E. Stanley

Long ago, all horse were wild. In time, people taught them to wear a saddle and a bit. But some horses were not tamed. And today, all over the world, wild horses still run free.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Genres: Animals, Nonfiction, Childrens

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

George Edward Stanley was born in Memphis, Texas on July 15, 1942. He received a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a master's degree in 1967 from Texas Tech University. He earned his Doctor Litterarum in African Linguistics in 1974 from the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. He lived all over Europe and Africa, studying and teaching foreign languages, working for the U.S. government, and writing books for young people and adults. He started writing fiction while a Fulbright professor in Chad, Central Africa, where about the only diversion he found available was listening to the BBC on his short wave radio. That led to his writing radio plays for a program called World Service Short Story. Three of his plays were eventually produced. After writing and publishing over 200 short stories in American, British, Irish, and South African magazines and linguistics articles in major international journals, he started writing books. He wrote over 100 fiction and non-fiction books for young people including The Katie Lynn Cookie Company series and the Adam Sharp series. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of M. T. Coffin, Franklin W. Dixon, Laura Lee Hope, Carolyn Keene, Adam Mills, and Stuart Symons. He was a professor of African and Middle-Eastern languages and linguistics in the department of foreign languages at Cameron University. He died from a ruptured aneurysm on February 7, 2011 at the age of 68.

Reviews

[J.C. Phelps · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think that Wild Horses is the perfect book for anyone wanting to do anything with horses. It talks about where horses lived in the wild a long time ago and where cowboys and cowgirls came from and all kinds of horses. I really like this book because of all of the things about horses. It's a short chapter book for probably the age of seven.

~Edy

[Rena Sherwood · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yikes.

I know the main point of non-fiction books like these are to encourage reading, but the facts presented should at least be right. For each correct fact, there usually was an incorrect fact. Some of the worst boners:

* Eohippus lived with dinosaurs (no, the dinosaurs were done by the rise of the Dawn Horse)
* Frenchman were the first cowboys in North America (no, it's generally thought to be the vaqueros, but there's also a good case for Native Americans)
* Australia stopped shooting brumbies. (Sadly, nope.)
* Exmoor ponies are completely wild. (Also nope. And, although rare, the breed's situation is nowhere near as dire as portrayed here.)
* Mustangs are protected by law (Actually, tragically, no. The law that was supposed to protect them merely gave them to the Bureau of Land Management, who still secretly sold horses for slaughter, then began doing it openly in 2004. There is nearly no prosecution for human killers of Mustangs. Any Mustang can be removed from the wild by the BLM at any time.)

There were also some strange inconsistencies. Many unusual words were immediately followed by how to pronounce that word ... but not for Assateague or Chincoteague. Even Americans who have been reading regularly for decades have no idea how to pronounce those names.

The only reason this book gets two stars instead of one is due to the rich, detailed paintings by Michael Langham Rowe. They were remarkably well done ... and deserved to be in a much better book than this.

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[Cena Rhodes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read aloud with Stormy. It was OK but not very interesting to her.

[Kimberly Lou · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitely a good reading for kiddos! I read it to my almost-four-year-old son, a couple chapters a night.

[Aubrie · Rating 3 out of 5]

2 1/2 stars! Finally reading my childhood books 😂

[Twyla · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned that long ago horses were wild.it was good that they were wild because they would stay with there herds.it was bad that they were wild because they would die without enough food or water and predators can hunt them.houses have changed during time, so they look like the horses today.Auryn 9 years old

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

"I liked the level of horse things that were in it. I like learning about wild horses and I liked this book a lot." B., age 9

I thought this was a very well done early chapter book. My daughter knows a lot about horses but still learned many things, as did I.

[Rachel Hacker · Rating 5 out of 5]

My horse crazy daughter (age 8) loved reading this book. She felt like she learned a lot about the history of horses and can't wait to visit Chincoteague Island now.
Her only suggestion is to include a glossary at the end of the book, as there were several new words for her.

[Mary Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked how it tracked horses across many continents, explaining how they got where they are and how the names came about. This book was chosen by Hannah.

[Summerc · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is great!

[Isabelle Hu · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a really boring book. It's also very short and is not the type of books for 5th graders.

[Mellanie C]

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