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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.

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Main Author: McCully, Emily Arnold
Corporate Author: Recorded Books, LLC
Other Authors: Free, Kevin R (Narrator)
Format: Kits Kit Books Print Book Kit Audiobooks Kit
Language:English
Published: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2011.
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Key, Bill, > 1833-1909 > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Horses > Training > Juvenile fiction.
Children's audiobooks.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Compact disc.
Title from container.
In container (23 cm.)
"With tracks every 3-6 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
"The same text is on both tracks. Track 2 has page-turn signals."--Container.
Physical Description:1 sound disc (15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book.
Issued also on cassette.
Issued also as Recorded Books Unabridged Fiction on compact disc.
Audience:4 years and up.
ISBN:9781449868017
1449868010
Author Notes:Emily Arnold McCully was born in Galesburg, Illinois on July 1, 1939. She graduated from Pembroke College, now a part of Brown University, in 1961 and received an M.A. in art history from Columbia University.

After graduation, she held a variety of jobs in the art field that included being a commercial artist, a designer of paperback covers, and illustrating advertisements. When one of her illustrations was seen on an advertisement in the subway, she was asked to illustrate Greg Panetta's Sea Beach Express. She accepted that offer and went on to illustrate over 100 children's books. In 1969, she illustrated Meindert de Jong's Journey from the Peppermint Express, which was the first children's book to receive the National Book Award.

Her first solo venture, Picnic, won the Christopher Award in 1985. Mirette on the High Wire won the Caldecott Medal in 1993. Her other children's books include Amazing Felix, Crossing the New Bridge, Grandmas at the Lake, My Real Family, and The Pirate Queen.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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