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Horse Books

Book Excerpt: Horses Adored and Men Endured

Learn more about Susan Friedland-Smith, the author of Horses Adored and Men Endured. Read the book excerpt of Horses Adored…

6 years ago


REAL COWBOYS: Illustrations of the Old West

Good news, fans of horses and children’s picture books! REAL COWBOYS, written by Kate Hoefler and illustrated by Jonathan Bean…

8 years ago

Finding Inspiration from Classic Horse Books

The lives of fictional characters in horse books may not always be realistic, but that’s part of the fun. Reading…

9 years ago

How to Start a Horse-Themed Book Club

  If you’re like most people, you enjoy a good book, but probably don’t have a whole lot of extra…

9 years ago

One-Eyed Horse Triumphs, Inspires Children’s Books

Norman, originally called Alydeed’s Leader, started out as a racehorse. He was Alydeed’s son and a Northern Dancer descendent. He…

9 years ago

4 Lesser-Known Marguerite Henry Books

  We all fondly remember reading Misty of Chincoteague, Justin Morgan Had a Horse, and King of the Wind. Those…

10 years ago

More Forgotten Favorites: Horse Books You May Have Missed

Popularity is a capricious thing. There’s really no accounting for why Misty of Chincoteague became Marguerite Henry’s most popular novel,…

10 years ago

Forgotten Favorites: Horse Books of the Past

Nearly every horse enthusiast is familiar with the most well-known horse stories: Black Beauty, National Velvet, the Black Stallion series,…

11 years ago

Summer Pony

Like most horse crazy kids deprived of actual horse ownership, I read voraciously to fill the time in between riding…

13 years ago

Editor’s Bookshelf

Here are just a few of the horse books on my reading list of lifetime favorites, from childhood fiction to…

16 years ago