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Original Title:	The Blind Colt
ISBN:	0590323008 (ISBN13: 9780590323000)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Blind Colt #1

The Blind Colt (The Blind Colt #1)

Glen Rounds

Paperback | Pages: 80 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 357 Users | 29 Reviews

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Title	:	The Blind Colt (The Blind Colt #1)
Author	:	Glen Rounds
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 80 pages
Published	:	December 28th 1987 by Scholastic (first published 1941)
Categories	:	Animals. Horses. Childrens. Young Adult. Fiction

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Having grown up on a Montana ranch, Glen Rounds had the insight to write about the cowboy lifestyle. He did so for more than sixty years, crafting original stories about life on the open range. A fair number of his novels feature Whitey, a young boy who shows all the signs of growing up to be a cowboy, and The Blind Colt (1941) is Whitey's first appearance on the printed page. Whitey is more impulsive than his uncle Torwal, a self-assured rancher with a limp red mustache. When Whitey sees the new blue-gray colt on their range, he's captivated by its physical beauty. The colt looks perfect to him, but Uncle Torwal picks up on details that Whitey hasn't learned to. The colt's pure white eyes mean he's blind, and Uncle Torwal thinks the humane thing to do is shoot him. It pains Whitey that his uncle would consider putting down this fine animal.

Whitey dissuades Uncle Torwal from going for his gun just yet; if the colt's mother can keep the wolves away from her unsighted son, he deserve a chance to survive winter. If he breaks a leg or gets mired in mud, they can shoot him then. Thus the mare begins teaching her colt the hundreds of lessons a blind horse needs to survive the open range. The colt and his mother run with a herd of other wild horses, but not all of them are committed to helping the colt, and he must absorb the lessons of experience rapidly to keep up. Soon he's without the mare to guide him, and all the responsibility of survival falls to him.

The odds don't favor the blind colt living through winter, but when he stumbles through a savage blizzard into the horse stables on Uncle Torwal's property, Whitey is elated. Fate must be on the blue-gray colt's side, but he mustn't let his uncle know the colt is on his land, eating food that could go to a fitter horse. Whitey can keep it a secret for now, but by the time Uncle Torwal finds out, he'll need to have built a compelling case for the colt's usefulness. Whitey embarks on weeks of patient yet urgent training, vying for the trust of a wild colt he's grown to love. Will his work with the colt convince Uncle Torwal the animal deserves to live, or has the handicapped horse's luck run out?

I've read more scintillating horse novels, but I respect The Blind Colt because it's based on actual events. The story is only mildly interesting, but somewhat impressive because the author borrowed the odyssey of a real blind colt on his own land. I like the tiny drawings at the bottom of most pages to illustrate the action; Glen Rounds isn't as adept a horse artist as Wesley Dennis, but his work has its charm. I'd rate The Blind Colt at least one and a half stars, and I'd consider the full two. If you like hopeful stories, you'll get something out of this book.

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Having grown up on a Montana ranch, Glen Rounds had the insight to write about the cowboy lifestyle. He did so for more than sixty years, crafting original stories about life on the open range. A fair number of his novels feature Whitey, a young boy who shows all the signs of growing up to be a cowboy, and The Blind Colt (1941) is Whitey's first appearance on the printed page. Whitey is more impulsive than his uncle Torwal, a self-assured rancher with a limp red mustache. When Whitey sees the

this book is really sad.But super good.It is about a horse that has a baby that is blind.So the owners of the horse think they should make it die.Why they want it to die is because it keeps on stepping into more trouble each day.Will they kill it or let it live ? If you want to know you have to read the book.

The first time I read this book was 35 years ago, at age 8. It was the first book I remember having "read" without paying attention. The words were going through my head, but I was day-dreaming about other things.As I re-read it, I realized why: The book was not written for late-20th-century suburban schoolkids. At all.It's laden with terms that I understood neither at 8 nor at 42, and now only at 43 with the help of Google and Google images. It's one thing to read the definition of a "butte",

Glen Rounds is my favorite children's author. I love his little drawings on each page, and the language he uses is spot on!

Very inspiring story of a blind colt over coming the odds to survive out in the wild.

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