robert the rose horse by joan heilbroner

What’s your opinion about children’s stories? Should they include the realities of the times, but incorporate a positive message? Or should they just be happy stories? I’m not sure… Joan Heilbroner That has nothing to do with my story, but the horses were the trigger.” “I got the idea for Robert the Rose Horse because Fidel Castro was in town,” she recalls, “and there were police horses all over the city. In a Publishers Weekly interview cited below, Heilbroner makes an interesting comment about how she came up with the idea to write Robert the Rose Horse. The secondary message about working for a living is nice, too. Robert’s quick thinking saves the day and no one gets hurt. It bothered me a little, but it did not bother them. Do we always protect them from the rough stuff or do we tell it like it is? I had forgotten all about the guns in this book until I read it to my kids. And that extends to how we raise our kids.

It’s interesting to think about how different children’s books are now. You definitely wouldn’t see that in a children’s book today! You might not like the scene with the robbers, because they carry guns and the guns go off during the biggest KERCHOO ever. I enjoyed remembering this fun story from my childhood and I also read it to my kids when they were little. I’m sure you can guess what happens next! He knows he has to act quickly when he sees some bad guys enter a bank, but how can he stop the robbers? Robert is in a bad spot.īut there were not many jobs for a horse.įinally he sees a job he can do – he can be a police horse! He’s good at his job and he’s happy. But he discovers that there are roses in the city too, and that’s a big problem! His “KERCHOOS” cost him this job, and the next one too. Robert gets a job pulling a milk cart all around the city. To get away from all the roses on their farm, his parents send him to the city to work. Robert the horse is allergic to roses and his gigantic sneezes blast everyone and everything high in the sky. Here’s another book I remember from long ago and this one’s also about a horse, a farm and a city.

Robert the rose horse by joan heilbroner