| The Finest Horse in Town Contributor(s): Martin, Jacqueline Briggs (Author), Gaber, Susan (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1930900821 ISBN-13: 9781930900820 Publisher: Purple House Press OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Animals - Horses - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 19th Century - Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015956066 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 9.8" W x 7.1" (0.31 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - Maine - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long before my mother was born, her aunts owned a store in a small village in Maine. They had a smart gray horse who pulled a shiny black buggy when they went out riding. Prince was the finest horse in town. But no one remembers who took care of that beautiful animal while the aunts were working in their store: perhaps it was a sneaky trader who tried to steal him, perhaps it was a one-legged harmonica player who taught him to dance; perhaps it was two children who once saved Prince's life. Jacqueline Briggs Martin, author of Caldecott winner Snowflake Bentley, really did have two great-aunts who owned a horse like Prince. In The Finest Horse in Town she recreates life in a small American town as it might have been at the turn of the 20th century. Susan Gaber's extraordinary watercolor paintings make the people and events in these three stories truly come alive. |