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| Original Title: | Smoky The Cowhorse |
| ISBN: | 0689716826 (ISBN13: 9780689716829) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Clint the cow puncher |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal (1927) |
Will James
Paperback | Pages: 310 pages Rating: 3.95 | 6421 Users | 277 Reviews
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| Title | : | Smoky the Cow Horse |
| Author | : | Will James |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 310 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1993 by Aladdin Paperbacks (first published 1926) |
| Categories | : | Animals. Horses. Childrens. Fiction |
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Smoky knows only one way of life: freedom. Living on the open range, he is free to go where he wants and do what he wants. And being a smart colt, he learns what he must in order to survive. He can beat any enemy whether it be a rattlesnake or a hungry wolf. He is as much a part of the Wild West as it is of him, and Smokey can't imagine anything else.But then he comes across a new enemy, one that walks on two legs and makes funny sounds. Smoky can't beat this enemy like he has all the others. But does he really want to beat it? Or could giving up some of his freedom mean getting something else in return that's even more valuable?
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Ratings: 3.95 From 6421 Users | 277 ReviewsEvaluate Containing Books Smoky the Cow Horse
What a writer really. A true to the time story that ranks with all the great Horse writers. This is one of those authers that is lost to the modern generation. The story was engaging and fun. The views on the mexican population were racest but it is a book of it's time period. The edition I read had the auther's illstrations as well and they were just beautiful.Newbery Medal Winner--1927This one is two star because the description fits--it was okay. The first 150 pages or so run long--it's basically a running description of the day-to-day life of Smoky the horse. A run-in with wolves is somewhat exciting, and the processing of breaking Smoky by Clint was interesting, but it kind of gets depressing from there. The one shining moment is when Old Tom tries to take Smoky from Clint and is thrown repeatedly--but what follows is a sad tale of being stolen,
Black Beauty for the cowgirl.I understand readers' concerns re: racism and sexism. Obviously I don't condone it, but we do understand, don't we, that those attitudes are par for the course in literature that age? Even Louisa May Alcott wrote rather disparagingly of the Irish in Little Women. Instead of being smug and judgmental about the grammar (which was intentional, anyway) and attitudes, how about using it as a discussion starter about (well, a lot of things): Racial attitudes, treatment of
this is my second favorite book...i really love the horse..it went through a lot of trouble from the day it was born...i even hated the people who wanted to hurt smoky...smoky got a lot of names and have been to a lot of places and he was hurt...but i was really glad when he meet up with his partner again at the end...i even cried..it's no joke...
I know that Will James won the 1927 Newbery Award for his 1926 childrens novel Smoky, the Cow Horse and I certainly do very much appreciate the many (and to and for me generally positive and wonderful) similarities to one of my personal horse-stories favourites, I do very much find continuous reading pleasure in how much of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is contained (general thematics wise) within the pages of Smoky, the Cow Horse (how both Black Beauty and Smoky follow similar life paths, how they
I am so very glad to finally have this book finished. Back during my horse book fetish of my early teens, I may have enjoyed this a bit. It does have a very slow beginning, spending the first 150 pages on just repetitive trips across the range. Unfortunately, not recommended for racism throughout the second half of the book. I was expecting racism against Native Americans, but, it's actually Mexicans that get the brunt of the racism in this book. You can be treated to the word halfbreed on about
I definitely remember reading this book before (well before I had goodreads) and liking it fine. Trying to read it again, I hated it. It was boring, the dialect bugged me, and I am not a horse girl. Oh god, I am so sorry for disagreeing with Kaia about how horrible this book was!
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