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Someday Rider
Kenny longs to ride a horse like his father and the other cowboys, and finally his sympathetic mother teaches him.
- GenresPicture Books
32 pages, Library Binding
First published September 1, 1989
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Ann Herbert Scott
21 books8 followersAnn Herbert Scott describes herself as "a transplanted Easterner who has come to love the wide skies and far mountain ranges of the West." She is the author of SAM, ON MOTHER'S LAP, and several other picture books. She lives Benicia, California.
Ann Herbert Scott was born in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, and grew up writing. Her first children's book, co-authored with a friend and never published, was written at the age of 13. Many honors and children's books followed with a hiatus to marry and raise a family. Today, Scott is one of America's foremost authors of children's literature. She deftly uses her B.A. in English (University of Pennsylvania) and M.A. in Social Ethics (Yale University) to bring both credibility and wonder to her work. Many of her books deal with western, ethnic, and rural themes.
Scott moved to Reno in 1961, when she married William Taussig Scott (1916-1999), a physics professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work as an "enumerator" in the agricultural census of 1964 eventually led to her writing a history of the U. S. census, with the cooperation of the Bureau of the Census. Her novel Sam was an American Library Association Notable Book for 1967. Another of her books, On Mother's Lap, was read by Captain Kangaroo on his television program as part of the national Reading is Fundamental literacy initiative. In 1996, the paperback edition of Cowboy Country was awarded the Parents' Choice Silver Honor. Scott is active in the Northern Nevada arts community and is the co-founder of the Annual Art of the Children's Book Festival. She and her husband were co-founders of Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace, a non-profit public benefit corporation in Washoe County, Nevada.
Ann Herbert Scott was born in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, and grew up writing. Her first children's book, co-authored with a friend and never published, was written at the age of 13. Many honors and children's books followed with a hiatus to marry and raise a family. Today, Scott is one of America's foremost authors of children's literature. She deftly uses her B.A. in English (University of Pennsylvania) and M.A. in Social Ethics (Yale University) to bring both credibility and wonder to her work. Many of her books deal with western, ethnic, and rural themes.
Scott moved to Reno in 1961, when she married William Taussig Scott (1916-1999), a physics professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work as an "enumerator" in the agricultural census of 1964 eventually led to her writing a history of the U. S. census, with the cooperation of the Bureau of the Census. Her novel Sam was an American Library Association Notable Book for 1967. Another of her books, On Mother's Lap, was read by Captain Kangaroo on his television program as part of the national Reading is Fundamental literacy initiative. In 1996, the paperback edition of Cowboy Country was awarded the Parents' Choice Silver Honor. Scott is active in the Northern Nevada arts community and is the co-founder of the Annual Art of the Children's Book Festival. She and her husband were co-founders of Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace, a non-profit public benefit corporation in Washoe County, Nevada.
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August 3, 2025
Beautiful art -- but I can't endorse any book where a kid nearly kills a goose by trying to ride her.
Besides, the father's going to lose the ranch, anyway. Or have all his animals killed by a nearby fracking operation. That's how life is in the real world, kids.
Besides, the father's going to lose the ranch, anyway. Or have all his animals killed by a nearby fracking operation. That's how life is in the real world, kids.
December 30, 2010
Kenny really wants to ride a horse with his father and the other cowboys. He isn't allowed yet so he tries to ride the other animals on the farm from the goose to the sheep to the calf. His mother coaches him and they surprise his father at the end.
It is a very cute story - I laughed when he rode the other animals and when they threw him off and looked at him indignantly. The illustrations capture the story's essence. (Ronald Himler also illustrated two other books I really like, The Roses in My Carpet and Rudy's Pond.)
It is a very cute story - I laughed when he rode the other animals and when they threw him off and looked at him indignantly. The illustrations capture the story's essence. (Ronald Himler also illustrated two other books I really like, The Roses in My Carpet and Rudy's Pond.)
February 17, 2010
Ann Scott is an Easterner who now lives in Nevada. This book portrays a part of a child's ranch life related to riding almost before walking. Although it is not directly about American Indians, White man's custom of land acquision is obvious.
January 11, 2009
A little boy wants to be a cowboy, so he tries riding the small farm animals without success. Finally his mother shows him how to ride a horse and then he gets to ride with the cowboys.
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February 1, 2015
This book was a genuinely sweet little treat for my cowboy crazy 3 year old.
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