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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMeet Kaya
Janet Beeler Shaw · 70 pages
In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Percé Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble. Includes historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.
Madeline in London
Ludwig Bemelmans · 56 pages
Madeline and the other girls travel to London to visit their former neighbor on his birthday.
The Rough-Face Girl
Rafe Martin, David Shannon · 32 pages
In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being.
Jingle Dancer
Cynthia Leitich Smith · 32 pages
Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek, Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.
Album of Horses
Marguerite Henry · 112 pages
Describes the world of horses and the various breeds, including the American Saddle Horse, Tennessee Walking Horse, and Clydesdale.
Fritz and the Beautiful Horses
Jan Brett · 31 pages
Fritz, a pony excluded from the group of beautiful horses within the walled city, becomes a hero when he rescues the children of the city.
Arrow to the Sun
Gerald McDermott · 38 pages
An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.
Knots on a Counting Rope
Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault · 32 pages
A grandfather and his blind grandson, Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses, reminisce about the young boy's birth, his first horse, and an exciting horse race.
Cowardly Clyde
Bill Peet · 43 pages
For a war horse, Clyde is an abysmal coward, but he finally decides that even if he isn't brave he can at least act brave.
The Legend of the Bluebonnet
Tomie dePaola · 32 pages
A retelling of the Comanche Indian legendof how a little girl's sacrifice brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas.
The Rabbits
John Marsden, Shaun Tan · 42 pages
The Rabbits offers a rich and immensely valuable perspective on the effect of man on his environment. Visually loaded and told with a passion for truth and understanding, The Rabbits aims to promote cultural awareness and a sense of caring for the natural world. A rich and haunting allegory for all ages, all cultures.
Little Black, A Pony
Walter Farley · 64 pages
When a small boy graduates from his little pony to a big horse, the pony is sad until the time comes when he is able to do something the big horse cannot do.
The Princess Knight
Cornelia Funke · 32 pages
Violetta, a little princess, is determined to become as big and strong as her brothers. She secretly teaches herself to become the bravest and cleverest knight in the land until she must face the king's best knights in a jousting tournament. Will she be ready?
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
Tim Tingle · 40 pages
In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
A Promise is a Promise
Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, Robert Munsch · 32 pages
When Allashua disobeys her parents and goes fishing on the sea ice, she has to use her wits to escape and to further trick the Qallupilluit when she promises to bring her brothers and sisters back to them. About the Classic Munsch series: Robert Munsch's award-winning books have become a staple on the bookshelves of families worldwide. His stories reflect the joys and challenges of everyday living
Wonder Horse: The True Story of the World's Smartest Horse
Emily Arnold McCully
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.
Leroy Ninker Saddles Up
Kate DiCamillo · 96 pages
Forging an instant bond with spaghetti-loving horse Maybelline, horseless cowboy Leroy Ninker inadvertently risks eternal loneliness when he forgets a vital third rule about Maybelline's care. Leroy has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse, until he meets Maybelline. When Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Book #1
The First Strawberries
Joseph Bruchac · 32 pages
A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth.
Paddle-to-the-Sea
Holling Clancy Holling · 63 pages
A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and names him Paddle-to-the-Sea. Paddle's journey, in text and pictures, through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean provides an excellent geographic and historical picture of the region.
The Work of Wolves
Kent Meyers · 407 pages
"Even at the tender age of fourteen, Carson Fielding possessed a preternatural gift for communicating with horses, as well as for sizing up the people he meets in his South Dakota reserveration border town. So when Carson buys his first horse - a run-down, wild-eyed roan - from wealthy rancher Magnus Yarborough, he quickly develops an instinctive dislike for the man and his rough manner with peopl