A Horse Named Bob: Level 2

by Dandi Daley Mackall, Claudia Wolf (Illustrator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310717829
Publisher:	Zonderkidz
Publication date:	05/28/2011
Series:	I Can Read Series: A Horse Named Bob
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Dandi Daley Mackall loves God, children, words, and animals. Her nearly 500 books for children and grown-ups have sold more than four million copies worldwide. She won the ECPA Christian Book Award for Best Children’s Book 2015 and multiple Mom’s Choice Awards, as well as ALA Best Book, NY Public Library Top Pick, Children’s Book Council Award of Excellence, and the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children’s Literature. Her novel My Boyfriends’ Dogs is now a Hallmark Movie. Dandi writes from rural Ohio, where she lives with her family, including horses, dogs, cats, and an occasional squirrel, deer, or raccoon.

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A Horse Named Bob

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By Dandi Daley Mackall

ZONDERVAN

Copyright © 2011 Dandi Daley Mackall
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-310-71782-9

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Chapter One

Jen loved horses. She loved reading about horses. She even dreamed about horses.

"Could I please get a horse?" Jen asked her mom and dad. "We don't have money for a horse," Mom said. "Where would you keep a horse?" Dad asked.

Then one day after school, there was a horse! A big, big horse was eating grass. The horse was in Mrs. Gray's yard. "You have a horse!" Jen cried.

Mrs. Gray frowned. She said, "I thought it was an elephant. My brother can't care for old Bob. Now I have to care for him."

(Continues...)

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