Wild Horses

By Julia Vogel

Book Overview

Animals facing threats from human encroachment are featured in these offerings from the Our Wild World series. Prairie Dogs looks at critters considered a keystone species by scientists, linked to the survival of about 40 other species. Horse-lovers will gravitate to the doe-eyed bays on the cover of Wild Horses, which introduces readers to the scattered herds of mustangs still roaming the U.S. Both books spend a great deal of time on these animals' fascinating social systems, from the bands of mares led by a single stallion to prairie dog towns subdivided into coteries. The prose is consistently clear and lively, although Lorbiecki's breathless marveling at prairie dogs' language of chirks, yips, and other vocalizations may lead children to anthropomorphize more than is warranted.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155971882X
• ISBN13: 9781559718820
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Cooper Square Pub
• Length: 47 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

Nice informational book

This is a good book of information. It's really cool to learn about wild horses and how it was for them back almost six million years ago or more! It's cool to know information about wild horses. I never knew they could be so interesting! I love to read about how they dealt with things like swimming from one island to another. I know I would hardly be able to move on that little space on Assateague if I was one of those poor horses. I can't believe people fenced it off like that just for wild birds! Do you have to fence off part of a horse's island for WILD BIRDS? Seriously, it was just terrible for them. Mostly because for a while the horses had nothing to eat but poison ivy and even worse, drink salt water from the ocean! I think it could be very interesting to learn about wild horses and how they lived back then! It is a very good book!

Great for kids who love horses

This is a really great book for kids who love horses - and our kids do! Now, our kids want to save all the wild horses in the world. They've read this book over and over.