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    Chester
    Chester
    Chester
    Audiobook8 minutes

    Chester

    Written by Syd Hoff

    Narrated by Dan Bittner

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    About this audiobook

    Chester, a wild horse who wants to be tame, comes to the city looking for a home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 24, 2015
    ISBN9780062405753
    Chester
    Author

    Syd Hoff

    Syd Hoff has given much pleasure to children everywhere as the author and illustrator of numerous children’s books, including the favorite I Can Read books Sammy the Seal, The Horse in Harry’s Room, and the Danny and the Dinosaur books. Born and raised in New York City, he studied at the National Academy of Design. His cartoons were a regular feature in the New Yorker after he sold his first cartoon to that magazine at the age of eighteen. His work also appeared in many other magazines, including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, and in a nationally syndicated daily feature.

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    • 4/5
      Reason for Reading: Ds read aloud to me as his reader.Chester is a wild horse who wants to be tame but when the men come to gather up the wild horses he just stands there so they will take him and they think he's not much of a wild horse, so they take the others and leave him. So Chester sets off to find somebody who wants him and will take care of him, he tries the farm, walking into town, perhaps a child's rocking horse, a statue, a merry-go-round horse and even has the opportunity to pull a fire engine when it's on the blink but they don't need him after it's fixed. Finally when the children challenge him to run, he runs and runs and runs and the cowboys finally want him where he meets back up with his old friends where they are all loved and taken care of.This book follows Hoff's usual style of focusing on one creature and his exploits in the real world looking for a place for himself to fit in. It's a cute, often funny story with Hoff's classic illustrations. I'm not awfully fond of the story. It seems sad rounding up all the wild horses, when today there are only a few places left in North America with wild horses. I'm no animal activist, but still, I believe wild animals should be free rather than in captivity. Now I'm sure Syd Hoff's message here in the book is none other than that everybody (insert Chester the horse here to represent everybody) wants to be loved, and cared for and have a place to call home. Simple as that and shouldn't be taken beyond that. This book is still in print, but has a horrendous new cover which has been recoloured with solid bright inks. Syd Hoff uses light coloured pencil crayons and black outline ink in his illustrations and this new cover is a fright to see. However, fortunately the inside illustrations remain Syd's own original work.