| Description |
144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
| Summary |
A collection of stories, poems, history, and mythology about horses. |
| Contents |
Foal / Mary Britton Miller -- Black Beauty (an excerpt) / Anna Sewell -- The story of the first woman bucking bronc rider / Milt Riske -- The cowgirl (an excerpt) / E. A. Brininstool -- The red pony (an excerpt) / John Steinbeck -- The old brown horse / J. Yorke Bailey -- The horse / William Shakespeare -- The plug-horse derby (an excerpt) / Emma L. Brock -- The legend of pegasus / E. and J. Lehner -- Pegasus / Eleanor Farjeon -- Five O'Clock Charlie / Marguerite Henry -- The horse / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Wild horses / Mary Crow -- Happy horsemanship (an excerpt) / Dorothy Henderson Pinch -- White horses / Eleanor Farjeon -- Thoroughbreds and their mascots / C. W. Anderson -- The horse and his boy (an excerpt) / C. S. Lewis -- Blackfoot Indian legend of the horse / (as told by) He-Who-Loves-Horses -- Farewell to the farm / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The black stallion (an excerpt) / Walter Farley -- A short history of the cowboy / Holling C. Holling -- Winter's tale (an excerpt) / Mark Helprin -- Poncho the pony / Patsy Montana -- Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking glass (an excerpt) / Lewis Carroll -- The Fly-Away Horse / Eugene Field -- Galloping horses -- Equestrienne / Rachel Field -- Runaway pony, runaway dog (an excerpt) / Ruth and Latrobe Carroll -- Cowboy poem -- A true horse tale. |
| Subject |
Horses -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Darling, Christina.
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Blue Lantern Studio.
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| ISBN |
9780811865692: $19.99 |
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081186569X |
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