Submitted by Ms. Allana!
From Hollie Hobbie, author and illustrator of the Toot and Puddle series, comes Everything but the Horse: A Childhood Memory, a wonderful picture book, derived from a very special childhood memory! I love the beginning: how the reader is introduced to this little girl’s world. The description in each page’s words and drawings endears you to the main character, and involves you in her desperate longing for a horse of her own. She watches with admiration and yearning as the other girls who live nearby ride their “tall and glossy” horses past her house. Some of the antics she performs to make it feel like she really does have a horse of her own are amusing. Will she ever have her own horse? One day, a birthday surprise awaits her in the barn… See this book listed in our catalog
From Hollie Hobbie, author and illustrator of the Toot and Puddle series, comes Everything but the Horse: A Childhood Memory, a wonderful picture book, derived from a very special childhood memory! I love the beginning: how the reader is introduced to this little girl’s world. The description in each page’s words and drawings endears you to the main character, and involves you in her desperate longing for a horse of her own. She watches with admiration and yearning as the other girls who live nearby ride their “tall and glossy” horses past her house. Some of the antics she performs to make it feel like she really does have a horse of her own are amusing. Will she ever have her own horse? One day, a birthday surprise awaits her in the barn… See this book listed in our catalog
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