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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 798.400929
EAN num: 9780448433424
ISBN number: 0448433427
Label: Grosset & Dunlap
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 48
Printing Date: September 15, 2003
Publishing house: Grosset & Dunlap
Age index: Ages 4-8
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Seabiscuit didn't start out a winner. He was a runt who was squat and funny looking. But Seabiscuit became a champion, and during the dark days of the Depression, he grew so popular that newspapers, radio shows, and magazines covered his every move. The soul and personality of this great-hearted horse are captured in this lively easy reader with beautiful illustrations as well as period photos.
Illustrated by Mark Rowe.
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Seabiscuit is a story about a sick a horse that is misunderstood. Tom smith who works for a racehorse owner convinces his boss to buy him. After tom does what he can do to help seabiscuit get better. A miracle happens,................... read the book to find out what happens!
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Cathy East Dubowski and Mark Dubowski, A Horse Named Seabiscuit (Grosset and Dunlap, 2003)
Now, I know this is a book for kids, and not kids who are proficient readers. Still, that doesn't excuse some of the omissions here (for example, the reason Seabiscuit lost his very first Big Cap-- Red Pollard's blindness). Kids like drama just as much as adults. They could handle the blind-in-one-eye thing.
Still, Seabiscuit's career is a tough thing to compress into forty-eight pages. The Dubowskis did try, and to some extent, they succeeded. They managed to do so without getting into anything too technical, which is a credit, but I think it was that unwillingness to get into the technical aspects that caused some of the more glaring omissions.
It's my hope that this will encourage kids to look for more complete kids' books on Seabiscuit (Ralph Moody's classic Come On Seabiscuit!, for example) once they get old enough to handle the larger books. But this is a decent beginning. ***
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