The cake, it should be noted, is decorated with actual roses.

Instead, I saw unfolding before me a tragic violation of the civil rights guaranteed to our protagonist, and I was nearly reduced to tears.įor those of you not familiar with the story, let me summarize: Robert, an intelligent and kindly farm horse, celebrates his birthday in rousing fashion, with loyal and generous friends, thoughtful gifts, and most importantly, a beautiful birthday cake prepared by his mother with her own four hooves.

This was not the child-friendly story I recalled from my nostalgia-tinged memories. But as I read, a sense of horror grew in my chest at the gross injustice depicted on the page. I loved this particular book when I was a kid, and so my anticipation was doubly strong as I started my narration of Robert’s adventures. Last night, I began reading to my son the classic children’s book, Robert the Rose Horse by Joan Heilbroner. Generally, browsing through the books evokes much nostalgia for my own childhood and anticipation and excitement for the future times I’ll be reading to my own child. This time spent together reading books has been a great opportunity of perhaps one-sided bonding, as well as giving me a chance to re-read some of the books that were my favorites as a child. Urn:oclc:154331291 Republisher_date 20141203004802 Republisher_operator Scandate 20141202075941 Scanner my son entered this world a few weeks ago, I would spend a few moments each evening reading a children’s book to him/his mother’s stomach in an effort to instill in him a love of literature. OL4630836W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 76.50 Pages 82 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0001711172 Urn:lcp:robertrosehorseb00joan:epub:f7c3ee05-b9a5-413a-add4-e9bcf797e278 Extramarc UCLA Voyager Foldoutcount 0 Identifier robertrosehorseb00joan Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t23b92m5f Invoice 11 Isbn 0394900251ĩ780394800257 Lccn 62009218 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL7462962M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:35:31 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1127902 Boxid_2 BWB220141003 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Donor

Robert the rose horse