Between the black stallion and young boy, a strange understanding grew that you lead them through untold dangers as they journeyed to America. Nor could Alec understand that his adventures with the black stallion would capture the interest of an entire nation.

    He loses saddle blankets and breaks reins...but then comes the worst news yet: a report card so bad that he has to repeat a grade. How can you tame the dreamy mind of a boy who stares out of the window instead of taking an exam? Enter Flicka, the chestnut filly with a wild spirit. Over the course of one magical summer, both will learn the meaning of responsibility, courage, and, ultimately, friendship.

    Gallico's most famous story, The Snow Goose, is set in the wild, desolate Essex marshes and is an intense and moving tale about the relationship between a hunchback and a young girl. The Small Miracle is a contemporary fable about a young boy's love for his dangerously ill donkey.

    When their aunt and uncle's cat disappears while they are supposed to be taking care of it, three young sisters frantically look for it and get quite a surprise.

    Dobie's book, originally published in 1941, tells their story. Gaunt, wiry, intractable, they were themselves pioneers in a hard, strange land. He writes of Texas cowboys, rustlers and catches the terrible excitement of the stampede, the poetry of lighting on a sea of seething horns. No historian or naturalist has ever so related an animal to the land, to men, and to history.

    Set in the jungles of British Guiana.

    This delightfully illustrated story, told in verse, describes the mischievous pranks of two lively kittens, SMOKE and FLUFF, and how their naughtiness was forgiven, in the end, by their understanding mother.

    The Lungfish the Dodo and the Unicorn. New York: The Viking Press, 1948. First edition. Octavo. 361 pages. Dust jacket.

    A young girl on a remote farm near a mountain makes friends with a little white colt with special powers--who turns out to be no colt at all.Author/illustrator Lathrop has woven a lovely spell of fantasy, trust and friendship.