Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw.

Decorated horses / Dorothy Hinshaw Patent ; illustrated by Jeannie Brett. - Watertown, Mass. : Charlesbridge, c2015. - 48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This nonfiction book about horses has a fresh focus: how people over the ages have decorated horses in special ways. Organized into three categories--warfare and hunting, performance and competition, performance, and ceremony--the book introduces horses such as the chariot-pulling war horse of the Persians to the rose-decorated winner of the Kentucky Derby.

Ages 7+.

ISBN: 9781580893626 (reinforced for library use)

LCCN: 2013048021

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Horses
Horses

LC Class. No.: SF302 / .P372 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 636.1009