Step Right Up by Donna Janell Bowman and Daniel Minter
Non Wels
Written by Donna Janell Bowman
Illustrated by Daniel Minter
Published by Lee and Low Books, 2016
2020-2021 Nominee - Picture Books for Older Readers
Synopsis
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.