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Calico the Wonder Horse, or the Saga of Stewy Stinker
Calico the Wonder Horse or the Saga of Stewy Stinker
Author: Virginia Lee Burton
Way out west in Cactus County there was a horse named Calico. She wasn't very pretty, but she was smart and could run like greased lightning. Everybody in Cactus County was happy until the peaceful inhabitants' cattle were stolen by a band of outlaws led by Stewy Stinker, a man so mean that he'd hold up Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. In comic-str...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780395857359
ISBN-10: 039585735X
Publication Date: 10/30/1997
Pages: 64
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Caldecott medalist and one of the leading lights in the internationally known Folly Grove Designers, Burton illustrated and wrote this cowboy story for her little sons in 1941. This recent edition is unique in that the black and white block print illustrations are on different color pages reflecting the tone of the story. Calico, the Wonder Horse, manages to save his master, the town, and rehabilitate a bad man named Stewy Stinker.
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This was a great book with fabulous illustrations and a useful moral.


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