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Herds of thunder, manes of gold : a collection of horse stories and poems / compiled and edited by Bruce Coville ; illustrated by Ted Lewin.

Coville, Bruce. (Author). Coville, Bruce. (Added Author). Lewin, Ted, (illustrator.).

Summary:

A collection of seventeen stories, poems, and excerpts from books about horses, by well-known authors over several centuries.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385419055
  • ISBN: 0385419058
  • ISBN: 9780385246422
  • ISBN: 0385246420
  • Physical Description: vi, 176 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [1989]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction / Bruce Coville -- My horse / William Shakespeare (from King Henry V, Act 3, Scene 7) -- Flight of the swan / Marian Flandrick Bray -- The birth of a king / Marguerite Henry (from King of the wind) -- The white horse girl and the blue wind boy / Carl Sandburg -- Prairie lightning / Peter G. Roop -- Dawn horse / Jane Yolen -- White horses / Anne Eliot Crompton -- The taming of Bucephalus / retold by Bruce Coville -- Joe Green grows up / Anna Sewell (from Black Beauty) -- Barn gravity / Nancy Springer -- Orchard / Ruth Stone -- The 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.
Subject:
Horses > Juvenile fiction.
Horses > Juvenile poetry.
Children's stories.
Children's poetry.
Short stories > Juvenile fiction.
Poetry > Juvenile collections.
Short stories > Juvenile literature.
Poetry > Collections > Juvenile literature.
Horses > Fiction.
Horses > Poetry.
Genre:
Fiction.
Poetry.

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  • 5 of 7 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)

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