Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness

by Donna Janell Bowman

Book Overview

A biography of William "Doc" Key, a formerly enslaved man and self-trained veterinarian who taught his horse, Jim, to read, write, and do math, and who together with Jim became a famous traveling performance act and proponent for the humane treatment of animals around the turn of the twentieth century.

William "Doc" Key had a special way with animals. Growing up enslaved in Tennessee, Doc was sent to plantations around the state to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620141485
• ISBN13: 9781620141489
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Lee & Low Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.4" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6