A Horse Named Bob: Level 2

A Horse Named Bob

by Dandi Daley Mackall, Claudia Wolf (Illustrator)

A Lesson in Kindness Jen can’t get a horse, so she’s excited when her neighbor Mrs. Gray gets an old retired horse and agrees to let Jen take care of him. But it seems that all of them need help becoming friends. This is a Level Two I Can Read! book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. It aligns with guided reading level J and will be of interest to children Pre-K to 3 rd grade.

32 pages, Paperback

First published April 19, 2011

About the author

A professional writer for over 20 years, Dandi Daley Mackall has written dozens of articles for popular magazines and published around 500 books for children and adults alike, with sales of over 4 million.

A frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, she lives in rural Ohio with her husband, three children, horses, dogs, & cats. Awards include the Edgar Award for Best YA Mystery, the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children's Literature; Distinguished Alumni Award from Mizzou; ALA Best Book; Christian Children's Book of the Year, Amelia Bloom, Mom's Choice Awards. Her YA novel, My Boyfriends' Dogs, is now a Hallmark movie.

Reviews

[Katie]

I was pleasantly surprised to hear the references to God in this book, and when I looked more closely at it, I learned that it is a Zonderkidz I Can Read Level 2 book (which I think is the same publisher who distributes the Berenstain Bear books now).

Jen ends up befriending a hard-to-love horse and a hard-to-love elderly neighbor through kindness, persistence, and prayer.

[Sarah]

Jen's neighbor has a horse that she desperately wants to be friends with. but her neighbor says the horse doesn't like anybody. Jen is persistent and visits the horse every day. Soon she makes two new friends by not giving up and by showing kindness.