Step Right Up
How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World About Kindness
New York, NY : Lee & Low Books Inc., [2016]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
"A picture book biography of Dr. William Key, a former slave and self-trained veterinarian who taught his horse, Jim, to read and write and who together with Jim became one of the most famous traveling performance acts around the turn of the twentieth century. Includes afterword and author's sources"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Key, Bill, 1833-1909 -- Juvenile literature.
Beautiful Jim Key (Horse) -- Juvenile literature.
Humane education -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Horses -- Training -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Horse trainers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Human-animal communication -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Human-animal relationships -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Key, Bill, 1833-1909 -- Juvenile literature.
Beautiful Jim Key (Horse) -- Juvenile literature.
Humane education -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Horses -- Training -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Horse trainers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Human-animal communication -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Human-animal relationships -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: 910L
ISBN:
9781620141489 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C BIOGRAPHY Key, Bill | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Key, Bill | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Key, Bill | Edgewood | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Key, Bill | Northeast Indoors | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Key, Bill | Sandhills Indoors | Children's Biography | In |