ONCE WE HAD A HORSE
by Glen Rounds & illustrated by Glen Rounds
A simple, updated text, full-color pictures, and large typeface make this revision of the 1971 book a natural for children who can read independently but who still want to cozy up to a picture book, as well as for Rounds's many fans and those seeking stories about life in an earlier era of America. On a ranch in Montana, two children get to know an old horse taken in from the main pasture to crop the grass in the house yard. While they just look at the horse at first, they spend most of the summer trying to figure out how to get onto his back again and again and again. The photograph on the book jacket shows a shaggy old horse and two proud children on his back, confirming just how lifelike the cartoon-style pictures really are, capturing the spirit of all the participants in that summer of learning to ride. (Picture book. 4- 8)