title: The Random House Book of Horses and Horsemanship: (Revised edition)
author:  Paula Rodenas 
description: Grade 5 Up-- Dozens of appealing full-color photographs invite readers to browse through this oversized volume. Rodenas covers the natural history, breeds, care, riding, equestrian sports, and humane treatment of horses in her text and accompanying photo captions, drawings, and diagrams. First-person narratives by expert horsepeople enliven the facts. The wide range of topics leads to uneven coverage and lack of focus; the information wavers across several audiences, simplistic in some segments, sophisticated in others. Detailed description of modern horse breeding is included, yet activities of interest to young riders, such as training and riding horses, is briefly summarized. Saddlery discussions range from basics to more complex explanations using terms that will be unfamiliar to novices. Most are defined in context, although some are mentioned first and explained later. The horse-wise will catch at least five factual errors, and Western riders will be dissatisfied with the token coverage of their sport. An appended list of associations omits the American Paint Horse Association, representing one of the top three Western breeds. This title is superior to Harold Roth's Big Book of Horses (Putnam, 1987), and supplements information in Marguerite Henry's All about Horses (Random, 1962). --Charlene Strickland, formerly at Albuquerque Public Library , NM<BR>Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Copyright © 2011, 2014 by Felix Scheinberger and Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz
  
  
  All rights reserved.  
  Published in the United States by Watson-Guptill Publications, an imprint of
  the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random
  House Company, New York.  
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  WATSON-GUPTILL and the WG and Horse designs are registered trademarks of
  Random House LLC.
  
  
  Originally published in hardcover in Germany as Wasserfarbe für Gestalter by
  Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz, in 2011. This translation arranged with Verlag
  Hermann Schmidt Mainz. Translation by Faith Ann Gibson.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  
  Scheinberger, Felix.  
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