With this in mind, Salina Bookshelf, working in conjunction with the Black Stallion Literacy Project, offers a new edition of the 1961 children's classic Little Black, A Pony. Translated into Navajo and completely re-illustrated by Baje Whitethorne, Sr. in vivid watercolors, this book on friendship and unwavering loyalty promises to steal readers' hearts. A little boy is in love with horses. He takes Little Black, his very own pony, on rides all around his family's property. However, one day the boy decides to ride Big Red, a horse that can do practically everything run fast, jump over obstacles, and even swim across rushing rivers The boy begins spending more and more time with Big Red and less and less time with Little Black. However, when a ride on Big Red ends in a frightening accident, the boy must rely on Little Black to save him. Is there one thing Little Black can do that Big Red can't?

    He is, in fact, abusive. Will poor Blitz ever be well-treated again?

    

    After seeing the references to Elizabeth Lett's new book, "The Eighty Dollar Horse...," I went to my bookshelf and pulled this one off. I have had it for years and it is not one which will be culled. Other reviewers of the Letts book remarked how the story is as much about Harry as Snowman; this is true. This book and story grabbed my horse-hungry heart years ago and has never left it.