{"product_id":"black-cowboy-wild-horses-isbn-9780593406182","title":"Black Cowboy, Wild Horses","description":"Bob Lemmons is famous for his ability to track wild horses. He rides his horse, Warrior, picks up the trail of mustangs, then runs with them day and night until they accept his presence. Bob and Warrior must then challenge the stallion for leadership of the wild herd. A victorious Bob leads the mustangs across the wide plains and for one last spectacular run before guiding them into the corral. Bob's job is done, but he dreams of galloping with Warrior forever to where the sky and land meet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis splendid collaboration by an award-winning team captures the beauty and harshness of the frontier, a boundless arena for the struggle between freedom and survival. Based on accounts of Bob Lemmons, a formerly enslaved person, \u003ci\u003eBlack Cowboy, Wild Horses\u003c\/i\u003e has been rewritten as a picture book by Julius Lester from his story \"The Man Who Was a Horse\" in \u003ci\u003eLong Journey Home\u003c\/i\u003e, first published by Dial in 1972.\u003cb\u003eJulius Lester \u003c\/b\u003ewas a celebrated author whose accolades include a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Award. He was also a National Book Award finalist, a National Book Critics Circle nominee, and a recipient of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In addition to his critically acclaimed writing career, Mr. Lester distinguished himself as a civil rights activist, musician, photographer, radio talk-show host, and professor. He taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for 32 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJerry Pinkney\u003c\/b\u003e was one of America’s most acclaimed illustrators. He won the Caldecott Medal, five Caldecott Honors, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five Coretta Scott King Honors, five \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBest Illustrated Awards, the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the Society of Illustrators’ Original Art Show Lifetime Achievement Award, and many other prizes and honors. His long list of celebrated titles includes \u003ci\u003eMirandy and Brother Wind, The Little Red Hen, The Little Match Girl, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Lion \u0026amp; The Mouse\u003c\/i\u003e. His family includes a number of acclaimed children's book creators: his son, artist Brian Pinkney; his daughter-in-law, author and children's book editor Andrea Davis Pinkney; and his granddaughter, author-illustrator Charnelle Pinkney Barlow.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Author's Note\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby  Julius LesterThis is a true story based on the life of a black cowboy named Bob Lemmons. He is mentioned in two books: \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of the Negro Cowboys\u003c\/i\u003e by Philip Durham and \u003ci\u003eThe Mustangs\u003c\/i\u003e by Everett L. Jones and J. Frank Dobie. In the latter there is an interview with Lemmons when he was in his eighties. I told this story first in my book \u003ci\u003eLong Journey Home: Stories from Black History\u003c\/i\u003e (Dial Books, 1972, reissued 1993). The present version was inspired by a fascination with black cowboys that Jerry Pinkney and I discovered we share. Jerry sent me a copy of a 1975 calendar he illustrated depicting blacks in the West and said he would love to do a book about black cowboys. I sent him a copy of \u003ci\u003eLong Journey Home\u003c\/i\u003e and asked him to read \u003ci\u003e?The Man Who Was a Horse.?\u003c\/i\u003e He read it and said he would love to illustrate it, but thought it would be very difficult to rewrite the story as a picture book. I didn?t tell him that I thought the real hard work was going to be the illustrations. May we each keep believing that our job is the easier one.                                                                                                                \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Author's Note\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Jerry PinkneyAs a young boy growing up in Philadelphia, PA, I dreamed of exploring the Wild West. My friends and I played cowboys, and with great enthusiasm we became characters portrayed on the silver screen. What fun we had. Today I wonder how our role-playing and self-esteem would have been enhanced had we known about Nat Love, the black cowboy, Bill Pickett, the black rodeo star, and the fact that one out of three cowboys was black or Mexican.     Some thirty years later I got my chance to play cowboys again, with a project I created for an African-American history calendar. The subject was the Black West, and it was that calendar I shared with Julius Lester. So again, some twenty-two years later I am playing cowboys. This time I am illustrating the story of Bob Lemmons, herding wild horses on the western plains. My gear is the finely crafted text written by Julius and my ever increasing appetite for American history. It is also the mounting research on this nation?s true West, with -- of course -- cowboys of color.                          Published by Dial Books \u003cbr\u003eA member of Penguin Putnam Inc.\u003cbr\u003e375 Hudson Street ? New York, New York 10014\u003cbr\u003eText copyright ? 1998 by Julius Lester \u003cbr\u003ePictures copyright ? 1998 by Jerry Pinkney\u003cbr\u003eAll rights reserved","brand":"Dial Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304389529829,"sku":"NP9780593406182","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593406182.jpg?v=1767722687","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/black-cowboy-wild-horses-isbn-9780593406182","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}