| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
vi, 176 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
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age Children |
| Summary |
A collection of seventeen stories, poems, and excerpts from books about horses, by well-known authors over several centuries. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Bruce Coville -- My horse / William Shakespeare -- Flight of the swan / Marian Flandrick Bray -- Birth of the king -- Marguerite Henry -- White horse girl and the blue wind boy / Carl Sandburg -- Prairie lightning / Peter G. Roop -- Dawn horse / Jane Yolen -- White horse / Anne Eliot Crompton -- Taming of Bucephalus / retold by Bruce Coville -- Joe Green grows up / Anna Sewell -- Barn gravity / Nancy Springer -- Orchard / Ruth Stone -- Winged horse / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- My friend Flicka / Mary O'Hara -- Dear Pony / Shirley Rousseau Murphy -- Sunrise / Mary Stanton -- Dapplegrim / retold by Bruce Coville -- To ride the sea of grass / Jennifer Roberson. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo. |
| Subject |
Horses -- Juvenile fiction.
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Horses -- Juvenile fiction. |
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Horses -- Juvenile poetry.
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Horses. |
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Children's stories.
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Children's stories. |
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Children's poetry.
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Children's poetry. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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Poetry.
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Fiction.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Coville, Bruce.
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Lewin, Ted, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0385246420 |
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9780385246422 |
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0385419058 (paperback) |
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9780385419055 (paperback) |
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