Horses: How to Choose and Care for a Horse

by Laura S. Jeffrey

Book Overview

Are your readers ready for a horse? Horses are graceful, majestic, and intelligent animals. They can be great pets, but it takes a lot of work to take care of a horse. This book informs readers about... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766025195
• ISBN13: 9780766025196
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Enslow Elementary
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 5

Customer Reviews

48 pages of facts blend photos with an easily-absorbed text

Choosing a pet's a complicated process; particularly when it's as large as a horse. Horses: How To Choose And Care For A Horse joins others in the American Humane Pet Care Library series for elementary readers, talking about the selection, housing, diet and health of the pet for grades 3-4. 48 pages of facts blend photos with an easily-absorbed text and exciting details about owning a horse, supporting science curriculum studies in the process. Nor does it gloss over the negatives: "Horses are very expensive" says Jeffrey bluntly, and proceeds to explain the major upkeep needs of a horse.