Inspiration and Appreciation: Notes on the Practice of Readers' Advisory

In 1955 Frances Whitehead was the children's librarian at the Parkman Branch Library in Detroit, Michigan. I had already read all the horse and dog books I could find in the library. (Do you remember them? Ticktock and Jim, in which Jim trades his watch for a horse; Bonny's Boy, about an orphaned purebred cocker spaniel and an evil man named Mr. Hooker; Taffy's Foal, about a girl who moves to Chicago from Kentucky with her father and new stepmother, and misses her horse Taffy most of all; the long list of dog books by Colonel Meek and, of course, the horse books by Marguerite Henry.)