Paint

This book is well written [and] very entertaining.… The story is emotionally engaging as the reader comes to care about the horse Paint and her handlers.

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A painted mustang gives us a glimpse into how life used to be on the prairie...it's a great read.

Rob Her Many Horses, Lower Brule Lakota

Dance’s voice, on behalf of the horse, is authentic…the reader becomes engaged and invested in the story and characters.

Horse Canada Magazine

Dance has found a way to tackle...complex topics, as well as provide a history lesson, that is not only understandable to children, but also interesting. What’s Dance’s secret? Animals.

Stouffville Sun-Tribune

Jennifer Dance's Paint is a North American Black Beauty...Paint, the story of a mustang...has a social purpose, that of revealing the genocide and environmental destruction that occurred on the North American Great Plains in the late 19th century.

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