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April Selection - The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1923 Medal Winner)
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February Selection - The Story of Mankind (1922 Medal Winner)
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June Selection - The Dark Frigate (1924 Medal Winner)
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July Selection - Tales from Silver Lands (1925 Medal Winner)
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March Selections (1922 Honor Books)
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August Selections (1925 Honor Books)
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September Selection - Shen of the Sea
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October Selection - 1925 Honor Book - The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery
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November Selection - Smoky the Cow Horse
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So glad I'm finally done with this book.
The written-in-dialect thing is interesting, and occasionally even poetic, and I might have thought this was a fairly good book if it was really, really short. But 300+ pages of double negatives and other grammar mistakes was hard to wade through.
As others have said, it does get more interesting in the last 100 pages (there's a story), but it's still not that great; and there's a dreadful racial stereotype (evil "halfbreed"...more
The written-in-dialect thing is interesting, and occasionally even poetic, and I might have thought this was a fairly good book if it was really, really short. But 300+ pages of double negatives and other grammar mistakes was hard to wade through.
As others have said, it does get more interesting in the last 100 pages (there's a story), but it's still not that great; and there's a dreadful racial stereotype (evil "halfbreed"...more
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Smoky is a spirited mouse colored horse. This story follows his adventures and misadventures and largely centers on his friendship with a gentle cowboy named Clint. It’s an earnest story about kindness, loyalty and friendship and I think it has a lot to offer young animal lovers – particularly horse lovers.
But this book does have some things going against it too. The 'cowboy dialect' is really awful. It feels unnecessary in that it’s n...more
Smoky is a spirited mouse colored horse. This story follows his adventures and misadventures and largely centers on his friendship with a gentle cowboy named Clint. It’s an earnest story about kindness, loyalty and friendship and I think it has a lot to offer young animal lovers – particularly horse lovers.
But this book does have some things going against it too. The 'cowboy dialect' is really awful. It feels unnecessary in that it’s n...more
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Read in May, 2009
I had a hard time getting through this book and I only read the first 32 pages. I wasn't as interested in the meanderings of the little colt and how he perceived the world. Another thing was the spelling and grammar. There is a striking difference between the way this book was written when it was first published and the way books are written now. I found myself a little waylaid by some of the words in this book. I just couldn't get into this book and I'm not sure I would recommend unless yo...more
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Read in January, 1981
recommends it for:
young horse lovers
Smoky, the Cowhorse was the 1927 Newbery Medal winner. My grandmother gave it to me for Christmas when I was in third or fourth grade. I remember really loving it. Now the details are a bit fuzzy to me since I haven't read it again since then, but I think that it had kind of a Call of the Wild feel only for horses.
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Read in September, 2009
You know, I can take the racism as a given for the time, and deal with the dialog, but I just found most of the book tedious. And I like horses and love reading about them.
My detailed review is here at the Newbery Project
My detailed review is here at the Newbery Project
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