Books with title Race Horses

Young readers craving information about beloved equines will find everything they want to know in Horses!, the new Animal Planet Chapter Book. Filled with more than 100 stunning photos, Horses! will explain how these beautiful animals work, play, compete, and care for their young, and how they move using their four natural gaits: walking, trotting, cantering, and galloping. Sections also explore horse breeds, herd behavior, communication, and the interdependent relationship between people and horses. Did you know these gentle giants can read emotions on a person’s face? Horses! will have readers whinnying with happiness about this popular animal subject.

The stallion chased my father's yellow Arabian into the corral. Sandy quit running and backed into the fence posts. My father twirled a lasso—he released and the rope grazed the stallion's neck. The stallion reared up and the lasso fell in the dirt. My father ran. So did Valdez. My father's cowboy hat flew off and rolled on its brim. "You keeds shouldn't be watchin'," Gramma said. Ben chuckled. "We've got front row seats."Gramma tossed her cigarette and it smoldered in the grass.The stallion forced Sandy against the wire. Her legs got caught in the bottom strands and he mounted her. Sandy tried bucking but his weight kept her pinned down. "Help Sandy!" I told Gramma.She tucked the pack of Chesterfields into the shirt pocket of her blouse. "Not a damn thing we can do."

This is a beautiful pcture-book about the history, anatomy, communication, moviement, diet,usesof horses and basic types of domestic horses. Award-winning author, Semour Simon, has written more than 200 award-winning science books about animals, vehicle, earth science, anatomy and astronomy. He may have done more than any other living author to help children understand and appreciate the beauty of our universe.