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| Brighty: Of the Grand Canyon (Marguerite Henry Horseshoe Library) | 
| Author: Marguerite Henry
Creator: Wesley Dennis
Publisher: Aladdin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 45676
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0689714858
EAN: 9780689714856
ASIN: 0689714858
Publication Date: April 30, 1991
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Condition: Good condition, wear from reading and use. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact and has some creases. The spine has signs of wear and creases. This copy may include "From the library of" labels, stickers or stamps and be an ex-library copy.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Another memory. November 3, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Another great book for children. It has been around a long time and was a favorite of our children. I purchased it for our grandchildren.
enjoyed the book June 18, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just discovered this delightful book. I find it ironic to read comments about burros being destructive......perhaps we humans ought to look in the mirror. We have been far more destructive to this national treasure than any burro.
 His Free Spirit Haunts the Canyon April 19, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Set in the Grand Canyon during Teddy Roosevelt's presidency this charming tale introduces readers to an unlikely animal protagonist: a wild burro who lives alone, but has been partially tamed by kind men. Rescued first by the Old Timer, then from a cougar's wounds by the North Rim's resident lion-killer, Brighty experiences the gamut of human behavior toward animals and each other: from the absurd, the selfish, the ambitious, and even the criminal. As the only witness to the evil schemes of a thieving murderer, Brighty relies on his own natural instincts which warn him about vicious Jake Irons.
Ruthless Irons murders the kindly and trusting prospector in order to obtain his copper mine. The sheriff frets for several years that the heinous crime goes unsolved and that the murderer remains unpunished. But Uncle Jimmy Owens' moon-lily tea helps trick a confession from the cruel scoundrel-with Brighty as a non-verbal but wary witness. Even in his lonely pilgrimages down to Bright Angel Creek the burro has many adventures on his own; he even crosses the Colorado River twice on a bridge which he helped men construct. Will he one day prefer to live
with his own kind as king of the herd? Or Be satisfied to be honored and befriended by human beings? Teddy Roosevelt looms larger than life as his personality is interwoven with Marguerite Henry's fictitious characters. For it was this charismatic president who devoted his efforts to setting aside the wilds of the Grand Canyon in the form of a national park.
Readers rejoice at Brighty's free spirit, which is said to prance through the gorges and trails which he cut en route to his beloved North Rim. This gentle burro epitomizes the youth and vigor of the primeval canyon-showing how humans and animals should cooperate to preserve America's natural wilderness. Delightfully illustrated by Wesley Dennis, this book is for outdoors enthusiasts and animal lovers of all ages.
Times change, spirit endures September 17, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Marguerite Henry's charming story of a burro in the Grand Canyon during Teddy Roosevelt's time is still an informative, but fictional, introduction to the Canyon. As with most of her wonderful books, the bones of the story are true but the flesh is fiction. That's ok, because I don't think she ever represented them otherwise. The drawings by Wesley Dennis remain spirited and captivating.
As others have noted it is important to keep our view of ecology in mind, that the cougars who are villains in this book, are valuable natural predators in the Canyon while the burros, who are cute heroes here, are destructive immigrants. As someone else said those changes in perception would be great teaching points. It's interesting that a cougar is a "bad guy" here (and I suppose from the burros' point of view they sure are bad guys) because in another of Henry's books, a different predator, the red fox, is a great and funny hero (Cinnabar, the One O'Clock Fox) who even outwits George Washington.
But be that as it may, Brighty is a fun story and he will introduce you to the varied levels of canyon life (rim vs. river). My brother recently returned from a river trip in the Canyon and I gave him this book to read about the Bright Angel Trail he'd walked.
I wouldn't recommend this book to very small children because Brighty does get hurt several times, once very badly.
very good book June 14, 2002
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
this was a very good book. i liked it a lot. marguerite henry's books are very interesting to read. i like them a lot. i would reccomend this book to people who like to read.
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