Anya ,'Showtime'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Is King of the Wind the one about The Godolphin Arabian?
Yes! And now I'm torn between checking it out of the library to see if I still like or just tracking down a copy and buying it. And the White Stallion we had in hardbound, and and I adored that book, too.
I'm a grown up, now, and I can buy kids books for myself all I want.
Don't know much about Morgans. Though I understand that Justin Morgan Had A Horse.
...but he wasn't called Bucephalus.
I loved Justin Morgan, too (I never knew it was also a movie!) I will go off about the awesomeness of morgans with very little notice. It's almost as bad as when I get started on percherons.
I went to UConn, where Justin Morgan was born and raised!
cool!
Black Gold is about Black Gold - who won the Kentucky Derby in 1923. He was sired by Black Toney (Col. Bradley named all his horses with "B" names) out of a mare called Useeit.
A new illustrated edition of the Louisa May Alcott short story, "An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving."
Whatever happened with the publication of her sister's journal from when she studied art in Paris?
Oh, boo, I missed the Marguerite Henry squee. I read everything I could get my hands on by Henry and Farley and Kjellgard--dogs and horses were my go-to books until I got into junior high and discovered historicals and SF/F. And then it was Olivia Coolidge and Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Moccasin Trail and Mara Daughter of the Nile) and Zilpha Keatley Snyder and Andre Norton.
I am 45 and was in college when the Sweetvalley High books came out, so I've never even picked one up.
I think I've read most of the horse books mentioned here. I wasn't very horsey, but my older sister was and got a lot of horse-related books. And if a book came into our home I probably at least tried to read it. (Didn't always make it through Dad's westerns.)
I honestly don't think I ever read any horse books, which makes absolutely no sense because I wanted to take horsback riding lessons in the worst way possible when I was about 12. I'm sure I read a couple, but... it's so strange that they somehow slipped by me.