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Library List

Anthologies & Poetry
Herds of Thunder, Manes of Gold: A Collection of Horse Stories and Poems compiled and edited by Bruce Coville (portions of stories by many authors--Anna Sewell, Mary O'Hara, Shakespeare, Carl Sandberg, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jane Yolen, etc.)
Music of Their Hooves: Poems About Horses by Nancy Springer

Novels
Anna Sewell
   * Black Beauty (1958)  not for sensitive young listeners

Marguerite Henry
   * Misty of Chincoteague (1947)
   * King of the Wind (1948)
   * Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1954)
   * Black Gold (1957)
   * White Stallion of Lipizza, the (1964)
   * Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West (1966)

Walter Farley
   * Black Stallion, the (1941)
   * Black Stallion Returns, the (1945)
   * Son of the Black Stallion (1947)
   * Island Stallion, the (1948)

The Tizz Series by Elisa Bialk
    * Tizz (1955)
    *Tizz and Company (1958)
    *Tizz Is a Cow Pony (1961)

Early Chapter Books
Star of Wild Horse Canyon by Clyde Robert Bulla

Picture Books
Walter Farley
   * Little Black, a Pony (1961)
   * Little Black Goes to the Circus! (1963)
   * Little Black Pony Races, the (1968)

Modern Fiction
   * The Pony Pals Series by Jeanne Betancourt
   * The Pony Tails Series by Bonnie Bryant
   * The Pony Days Series by Peter Clover
   * The Winnie the Horse Gentler series by Dandi Daley Mackell (Christian content)
   * Moon Shadow by Chris Platt
   * The new historical fiction series Saddles, Stars, & Stripes by Deborah Kent

Drawing Horses
   * Draw 50 Horses by Lee J. Ames
   * Draw Horses with Sam Savitt by Sam Savitt
   * Draw Horses by Lee Hammond

Non-Fiction Reference (may contain evolutionary content)
   * Album of Horses by Marguerite Henry
   * Horses (DK Eyewitness Handbooks) by Elwyn Hartley Edwards
   * The Encyclopedia of Horses & Ponies by Tamsin Pickeral

Optional Resources for Purchase

Horses Project Pack from Hands of a Child