Presents color-illustrated profiles of horse breeds from around the world, and provides information on horse care, including exercise, pasture, and shelter; diet and feeding; health and healthcare; grooming, and more.
Horse-crazy fourth-grader Ellie James constantly dreams about having a horse of her own, and God finally seems to have answered her prayers, but not with the gleaming black stallion she has been longing for.
Martha Lessen, a nineteen-year-old tomboy, leaves home in 1917 and finds work in Oregon breaking horses left behind by owners away at war, and when she arrives in Shelby, George and Louise Bliss invite her to stay the winter and attempt to socialize the rambling young girl.
Take a journey through the ages and around the world - from ancient Greece, to the time of Genghis Khan to Arthurian England and then to outback Australia in the 1950s. Each story weaves the fantastic into the commonplace or focuses on the special relationship that exists between humans and horses.
An introduction to Przewalski's horses that covers the history of the breed and describes their physical traits, temperament, habitat, and conservation.