Wonder horse

By Emily Arnold McCully

Subjects: Training, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Horses, fiction, Horses, Historical fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Picture books

Description: A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.