Customer Reviews

Blaze and the Lost Quarry (Billy and Blaze Books)

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My son (4 next week) wanted some "Wild, Wild West" stories. I found the wonderful books by C.W. Anderson in the library. I bought several of the reprints in paperback because he loves the stories so. The gentle adventures of Billy and his pony Blaze are a wonderful way for young boys to learn the virtues of loyalty and friendship and the love of animals. In this book Billy and Blaze spend a day looking for a forgotten quarry. They have a few adventures trying to get over the overgrown trail. The quarry is as wonderful as Billy pictured. He gets a bonus - he finds a puppy running from a fox. Billy and Blaze take their new friend home. The realistic pen and ink drawings illustrating the story are very much enjoyed by my son. I'm happy to have found these books reprinted.

My son loves the Billy and Blaze series. The "adventures" they have are told in such a way that the children can imagine themselves taking part in them.

In this particular story Billy sets off to find a "lost" quarry. This one reminded me of many of the "adventures" my brother and I had as children in the forests near our grandparents farm in Montana.

It is nice to share a quiet, interesting story with my son. Most authors today seem to think they need to compete with television and movies, therefore their books seem to be nothing more than written out tv shows and action flicks.

The other thing my son and I enjoy in these books are the drawings. They are very good and realistic. We have the oppotunity to study some nice art while reading a pleasant book.

As a child (first and second grade) I read this series. Billy was without a doubt my favorite character from any of the childrens books available to me then. They are well writen, easily followed, in or out of torder. I am very please to be able to buy them for my nieces and my own child!

In my opinion, the entire Billy and Blaze collection is nice for the whole family to enjoy. Children ages nine and under might enjoy these stories the most. Perhaps, children age 10 and up may find the reading and stories too simple. However, I enjoyed reading the stories with my children (ages 2 - 7), and they thoroughly enjoyed the stories as well.

My grade one students love the Billy and Blaze books, so I recently purchased a few more. This particular one (Lost Quarry)has some kind of issue with the binding, however. Two separate copies of the book are bound into one. I thought I had additional pages to read, but when I checked, they were just pages I'd already read. Just cheaply put together.

These books were on a reading list for my son going into 4th grade. I must say I was very shocked to see how short and simple the books were for a 9-10 yr old reader. However I didn't make the reading list so I rolled with it and my son enjoyed the book that took him 10 minutes to read.

The Billy and Blaze books were part of my childhood and I was so excited to see them online. I was expecting only to find old, worn out copies because I didn't know they still printed the book. However, the ones I purchased were brand new and excellent quality. I was very happy with this product.

All Blaze books are great! Uses pretty small words and basic vocabulary so if you have children that can read at a first grade reading level they should be able to read these books. A third and fourth grader will probably enjoy them if they like horses but it will not be challenging.

We manage a tutoring for at-risk elementary-age children. All of the Billy & Blaze books are good for us!