The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
A picture book about a Native American girl whose love for wild horses leads her to join them. The story is spare and lyrical, with illustrations that emphasize landscape and motion.
Work Information
A girl's bond with wild horses carries her into another way of life.
Goble tells a simple but resonant tale of kinship between a girl and the horses she loves. Its quiet emotional pull comes from the union of folklore-like narrative and distinctive visual style.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Aladdin
- Published
- 1993-03-31
- Pages
- 32 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 20.32 x 0.51 x 25.4 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780689716966
- ISBN-10
- 0689716966
- Price
- 2053 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Children's Books/Animals/Horses
"There was a girl in the village who loved horses... She led the horses to drink at the river. She spoke softly and they followed. People noticed that she understood horses in a special way." And so begins the story of a young Native American girl devoted to the care of her tribe's horses. With simple text and brilliant illustrations. Paul Goble tells how she eventually becomes one of them to forever run free.
Paul Goble has received wide acclaim for his magnificent books, including Buffalo Woman, Dream Wolf, Her Seven Brothers, and the winner of the 1979 Caldecott Medal, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Commenting on his work in Beyond the Ridge, Horn Book Magazine said, "striking elements synthesize the graphics with the narrative and spiritual aspects of the text." The New York Times Book Review noted that his technique is "a marriage of authentic design and contemporary artistry, and it succeeds beautifully." Paul Goble's most recent book for Bradbury Press, I Sing for the Animals, was called "a lovely, small book that movingly conveys profound belief in the goodness of creation" by Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal said it "fits as easily in the hand as Goble's meditations about the natural world do in the heart."
Reviews
-
From Childhood
When I was younger I used to read these books all the time...now I can share them with my kids! Thanks!
-
Indigenous American Story
I love how this follows the story of a girl and her own path that leads her down a path of self fulfilment, albeit not what is expected by her family and friends.
-
Hermosas ilustraciones
La pasta es muy delgada
-
très bon livre, magnifiques illustrations
Ce livre est adapté aux enfants de 9/10 ans qui veulent apprendre l'anglais (à lire avec les parents en fonction du niveau). Magnifiques illustrations
-
Gorgeous book and story
This book is beautifully illustrated and has a lovely story. My 18 month old actually sits for the whole thing, probably due to the beautiful illustrations. Highly recommend
-
Beautiful
Gorgeous story and illustrations.