This book was soooo good! I loved it so much! Everything was so thrilling, and it had heaps of thrilling surprises! The storm was pretty scary to. I highly recomend these fabulous books! I hope Lauraine still keeps writing them, even though Class Act is the last! You MUST get the WHOLE series, they are VERY addictive, especially if u love HORSES!

I love this series, and I hope that Lauraine Snelling writes a lot of High Hurdles books. This book is one of the best in the series and I highly recommend it!

This book is great!! DJ gets a chance to spend some time with her real father and while she is there a storm treatends to flood everything, and when it starts raining a mare is about to give birth. This book is great I love this searies ( don,t mind my spelling)

If you know a boy ... have a boy ... who "doesn't like to read", read him this one. You will love it and he will be pulled into Ian's world immediately. Besides, is there a better way to turn on a non-reader than to read aloud. Do it. Then give your copy to a sixth grade teacher so he/she can read it aloud to many kids every year.

Ian has known nothing other than the dairy farm for his eleven years of life. He doesn't seem to be a farm kid--his mother always acted as a buffer between he and his father--but the chores, the cows, and the routines have become a comfort zone for Ian. When his father decides to sell their cows, Ian is surprised at how much he is against it. But ever since the ice storm broke power lines, stray voltage has plagued their farm, and the cows are sick because of the extra electricity. The farm is also suffering because Ian's mother has left. Suddenly there is one less person to help with chores or keep things clean in the house. Ian struggles with missing his mother, and finding his place on the farm without her. School saves Ian, and his teacher often provides the comfort he needs.

The emotions in this book are real and powerful--the reader is drawn into Ian's world, and can't help feeling the same things Ian is feeling. Ian's character also feasibly develops through the course of the book, and we see him change from event to event. Other characters do not suffer development at Ian's expense, though. Doyle creates each person with the same care as she does Ian. Farm kids--old and young--will be able to identify with many things in this book. Reader should know that there is undisguised swearing in the book, but it fits the scenes and characters and discussion. Overall, this book didn't disappoint me!

In language that shimmers, like the ice storm so beautifully described in it, this book brings to life some very real boys, aged 11 and 17, who live on a farm in Vermont, and grow up by doing tangible things like cleaning out the barn, playing basketball, making maple syrup, doing homework, and by having relationships with the people around them that are rich, warm, but often painful. Dad is difficult, Mom is distant(read that gone), and you can just about cut the tension created in this little world of thinking adolescents. These are people who are living and growing by doing and thinking, not standing and watching.
The best things about this book are the fact that the writer treats both her characters and readers with the greatest of respect, never talking down to them, the plot really charges to a climax, and the writing is just so..good. A great book either to read yourself(parent) or get for that child who you'd like to get interested in good writing.

This is the best book I ever read because of the pictures. The pictures and the colors are very beautiful because they are light and dark. This book is great.

I think that it is very rare nowadays to come across a book that be as entertaining as it is educational. my kids love this book for the entertaining qualities, and i love it for the latter.

My 20 month old daughter and I enjoy looking through this book at the beautiful paintings. I am sure she will love it for a long time to come. The author did a wonderful job describing each month of the year and what was special about it for a certain animal. Very nice!

Where the Mustangs Show is a wonderful collection that should be part of anyone's growing library of Cowboy Poetry. The book not only contains the spirit of Michael Schroll's work, but the pages and cover are also graced by a painting by Bonnie Conrad of Utah, and photos by Robbie Larson of Cheyenne.

Cowboy Poetry is fun to read. It's fun to read aloud. And this collection comes with a BONUS. Since Cowboy Poetry is a performance art, the book includes a CD with the poetry read by the author. What a delightful treat to enjoy the words interpreted by the author, complete with musical snippets and some appropriate sound effects.

Michael's work has the true tone of Cowboy Poetry. A rhyme and rhythm that is comforting and vivid. His voice is charismatic and calm and he paints pictures in our minds that put us in his words and put his words in us. You just want to invite him over for the evening to entertain.

Where the Mustangs Show has a special place on our shelf. Michael is a good friend whom we've never met, but with whom we'd love to sit a spell. Just to listen and enjoy. We will head up the trail to stand in line for the first edition of his next collection.

Where the Mustangs Show, is a work of art, from the heart. Truly Cowboy feelings. The CD is so alive, complete with sound effects. The photography is thought evoking, and makes me wonder who the photos were of. The best Cowboy Poetry book I've read & listened to. In fact, I've purchased 5 additional sets for gifts.

It makes a person want to move to Wyoming, Meet, Greet and live like a real cowboy. The author's voice is richer than Burl Ives, and he makes you feel "not alone", with feelings a person gets from time to time.

"Coyote" has the heart of a true western cowboy. As one begins to read the verses, it is almost possible for the reader to taste the dust, feel the cold wind and smell the sage of the high prarie.

Listening to the accompanying CD, I truely enjoyed Mike's playful drawl as he describes the "breaking of a colt" thru the eyes of the colt in "Play Time" and his lively discription of a thunderstorm as he recites "The Devil's Whip". Congratulations, Michael "Coyote" Schroll, I hope to see more of your poems very soon!

I loved this book. You will recieve such a blessing from this story. Can't wait for your next book!

Robin Lee Hatcher has done it again. This is undoubtedly one of the best books that I have ever read. The unique "counterpoint" genre similar to Rivers' The Scarlet Thread adds that much more intrigue to the story. This was a book that I did not want to put down.

I loved this book. If you enjoy books by Francine Rivers or Lori Wick, here is an author you should read.

In a way only Jory Sherman can fulfill, he takes you on an incredible journey, through a raging storm in the Gulf of Mexico, to settle the vast, arid, Apache stalked land of Texas. A fantastic read!

Sherman brings history to life, and paints a scene the way an artist would approach a canvas. Perhaps the best of modern Western lore. Sherman is at his best in this one. A compelling story, with dimensional characters you hate to leave

After reading Grass Kingdom, I waited for this addition to Sherman's series on a historical look at the early Texas years and found it to be another great Jory Sherman saga. The character of Martin Baron and his effort to build his own western kingdom was great. The flavor of Spain the character Miguel Fuentes added was wonderful seasoning.

This book was named the Golden Kite Award Honor Book for picture text for 2001 by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. It was also named a Notable Book in the Language Arts by the National Council of Teachers of English.

My mother loved to garden and this book makes me think of her. It's a beautiful story for children, but also a special book to give to adults who have recently lost someone. The illustrations are just beautiful.

This is a beautifully illustrated and touching story to share with kids - and other adults, too. I'm a teacher and I really appreciated the information about bluebirds that is included.

Ten-year old Ariel's best friend is her grandmother. After her grandmother suffers a stroke, Ariel is afraid of this woman who has lost the will to live. With her help, her grandmother begins to walk and talk again, and Ariel gains a new understanding of the 'knowledge' that is passed on through the generations.

I loved it because her grandma made her a quilt just for her.The quilt helped Ariel feel better about the coming baby.This reminds me of my life because when my sister was born I didn't get that much attention.

I am teaching my 10 year old daughter to quilt. She found this book in the "Accelerated Reader's Program" at school and read it because it had quilt in the title. We read two chapters every evening and we loved every page! It was hard to wait for the next evening to arrive so we could read the next chapters. This is a story about a young girl with many changes in her life. Her mother is expecting another child and her Grandmother comes to live with them. The girl loves to draw ane her Grandmother asks her to draw a picture so she can make the new baby a quilt.Many changes occur within the family because of the pregnancy and then serious health problems for the Grandmother after the quilt is started. The story revolves around the young girls struggles with the changes and who will finish the new baby's quilt. A great book to read with a warm and believable ending.

I don't usually write book reviews, but as I came across this book for sale on Amazon, it brought back wonderful memories. I purchased this book back in 1973. I loved it then and I love it now. I re-read it for maybe the fifth time. I decided to write this reveiw.
I am not well educated or well traveled, but I know adventure when I read it and this book is of a great adventure. It is a group of short stories written by Andy Russell, who was born in 1915, more importantly at the foot of the Great Rockies mountains in southwestern Alberta Canada.
He describes his childhood growing up on a farm there, where he learned very young how to take care of himself. Fishing, hunting and trapping in a country of great beauty, that he describes as no one else could. Some stories are of breaking, riding and training horses. This is a book for someone who loves animals and the great outdoors, and especially for someone who loves adventure. His travels take him from the farms of the great plains to the beautiful mountains of the west and north to the cold of the frozen tunda. It is also about animals small and large, from weasels and minks to bears and elk, as well as fishing, the kind of which is very hard to find these days. There are stories told around camp fires, of cowboys and of the English Remittance men. Thrills vary from forest fires to the stalking of a trophy elk.
He went on to become a great guide of the Rockies, both for hunting and for those who hunt with a camera. This is a great adventure and a must read. If you read this book you should also read another book by him called "Grizzly Country". It is said by many to be one of the best books ever written about bears, both from the scientific point of view and by someone who was a conservationalist and a naturalist. I love bears and I loved that book also. I loved them both. I hope to read other by him. Enjoy and thank you Andy Russell.

Trails Of A Wilderness Wanderer are true stories from the West blending the autobiography of an outdoorsman with accounts of living in the wild places of the Rockies, following old trails and meeting hunters and explorers. An absorbing outdoorsman's diary filled with nature and observations of the wild.

Mr. Russell takes you back to the early days when only Indians and bears roamed the land, through his youth and adulthood as an outdoorsman in the wilds of early Canada. He tells of living a life we can only dream of now. The people he writes of were real and made Canada what it is today. I have reread this book almost yearly since it came out in 1971. You will feel as if you have walked his trails with him and love the life he led. An excellent gift for the city-bound outdoorsman!!!

In this book a buzzard gets hurt, and he gets taken care of.Well,one day Slim,Little Alfred, Drover(the dog),and Hank(the dog)was driving to town to get Christmas presents,and a buzzard named Wallace flew into the wind shield.He got hurt pretty bad,and Little Alfred begged Slim to take him home and take care of him.Slim took him home after he went shopping,and cured him.Then Wallace flew away with his son happily ever after.

Its about a dog who gets into a lot of adventures and mysteries and always solves them. It is a good book and is really funny.

This is a book that will truly make you cry with laughter. Who ever knew that buzzards could be portrayed so humorously. Besides, you not only get the misadventures of Jr. but also his father.Throw a bachelor cowboy and two children in the mix and look out. Erikson is a master of midwestern cowboy culture and style. I live just next to Texas and people really do act and talk that way down there. This is not a farce but real. The people are also warm, kind hearted, and well intentioned as well as being, occassionally, misguided as we all are. Give this book a try. You will be glad you did.