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Get to Know Horse Breeds : The 100 Best-Known Breeds by Silke Behling (2014, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherEnslow Publishing, LLC

ISBN-100766042596

ISBN-139780766042599

eBay Product ID (ePID)166388171

Product Key Features

Book TitleGet to Know Horse Breeds : the 100 Best-Known Breeds

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

TopicAnimals / Horses

GenreJuvenile Nonfiction

AuthorSilke Behling

Book SeriesGet to Know Cat, Dog, and Horse Breeds Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight15.5 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceElementary/High School

LCCN2013-007012

ReviewsIllustrated with copious color photos of horses/cats from around the world, the text in these volumes is detailed and engaging. It is also fraught with errors both minor and major. In the horse book, for example, the cob, the western horse, and the polo pony are each referred to as a distinct "breed," although the cob is actually an equine body type , the western horse can be any horse shown or ridden in western tack, and a polo pony is any horse or pony used in the game of polo. Donkeys are listed in the "small horses and ponies" section of the book, although they are neither: donkeys are a distinctly separate species. In several instances, the distinctive markings that identify a particular breed are noted in the text, but not shown in the accompanying photos. Although this book claims to catalog the one hundred best-known horse breeds, several listed are noted to be extremely rare and nearly extinct, while at least one very common breed (the American Standardbred) is not mentioned at all. The cat book is slightly better, although as in the horse book the beautiful photographs do not always illustrate concepts emphasized in the text. Here too, obscure breeds are overly-emphasized. For example, the extremely rare Kenyan Sokoke cat is featured in a two-page spread, while the more common Manx is given a single, unillustrated paragraph.

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromSixth Grade

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Grade ToSeventh Grade

Dewey Decimal636.1

SynopsisThis book will make readers neigh with excitement. Students read about more than one hundred horse breeds, which are categorized into groups according to temperament, build, size, and what they are used for. Readers will discover warmbloods, coldbloods, Thoroughbreds, Baroque horses, small horses and ponies, gaited horses, and Western horses.

LC Classification NumberSF291.B3413 2014