The Enchanted Horse
10 best books like The Enchanted Horse (Magdalen Nabb): Moonsilver, The Pirate Pig, The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man, Stallion in the Storm, Vulpes, the Red Fox, The Mysterious Woods of Whistle Root, The Wolfling: A Documentary Novel of the Eighteen-Seventies, Jim's Lion, Too Small to Fail, Bonny's Big Day
| Author | Kathleen Duey |
| ISBN | 0689842694 |
Heart Trilby has no family. She lives a hard and lonely life in the dusty village of Ash Grove -- until she finds a scarred, skinny mare in the forest. Against the wishes of her guardian, mean-spirited Simon Pratt, Heart adopts the mare and names her Avamir. Heart is thrilled when she realizes Avamir is...
| Author | Cornelia Funke |
| ISBN | 0385375468 |
The beloved and bestselling author of Inkheart brings imagination, adventure, and humor to a swashbuckling full-color chapter book!
Who needs a treasure map when you have a pirate pig with a nose for gold? Stout Sam and his deckhand, Pip, find a pig washed up in a barrel on the beach. They want...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0440405807 |
Ladies and gentlemen of the Goodreads jury. Don't let the fact that this book is cutesy-covered, middle-size fonted, and 100 pages thin fool you: This is NOT A BOOK FOR (JUST) KIDS. How do I know that? I submit as evidence: me. I read this randomly when I was a youngun and loved it. Years later, as a less-youngun,...
| Author | Ben M. Baglio |
| ISBN | 0439341264 |
The story told in this book can definitely give you goose bumps at times. Mandy and her parents operate an animal clinic and one day they get a phone call to go inspect the health of some racehorses at Folan's Racing Stables. Mandy and a volunteer named James, are delighted when they get the opportunity...
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| ISBN | 0140376232 |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREG!!!
a review for greg!!!
this is a wonderful little book; part of jean craighead george's american woodland tale series, which are cute little illustrated chapter books about animals in the wild and the things that they do. while we are exposed to the inner...
| Author | Christopher Pennell |
| ISBN | 0547792638 |
A book much like the mysterious, inviting woods it describes. Step in to find friendship, magic, and surprises.
A little girl who can only sleep during the day grows from something of an isolated town oddity to the heiress of an ancient legacy of magic and music.
Exquisitely illustrated,...
| Author | Sterling North |
| ISBN | 0140361669 |
Robbie Trent, protagonist in Sterling North's The Wolfling, stands on the brink. The brinkbof manhood, the brink of maturity, as the comely Inga Skavilain courts him, making him jealous first of the portrait painted of her by Frithof Kumlein, then making it a present to him.
But Robbie Trent,...
| Author | Russell Hoban |
| ISBN | 1406346020 |
A touching story about a boy in hospital, who dreams wild and extraordinary dreams as he faces a life-saving operation.
Jim is in hospital. He’s frightened. What if the doctors send him somewhere that he can’t find his way back from? Nurse Bami tells Jim that he must go to his “good place”...
| Author | Morris Gleitzman |
| ISBN | 0241955203 |
1 boy. 1 girl. 1 camel. Squillions of dollars. A plan that can't fail. Or can it? Oliver's parents own a bank. This makes them very rich, very important and very busy. Oliver, on the other hand, is terrible at maths and aspires to nothing more than owning the puppy that he frequently visits at his local pet...
This whole series of James Herriott books illustrated by Ruth Brown are lovely picture books. "Bonny's Big Day" tells the story of an old retired farmer, Mr. Skipton, who has lovingly granted his elderly draft horses a beautiful retirement on his property. When Dr. Herriott comes to tend to Dolly's...
| Author | Bill Wallace |
| ISBN | 0671014153 |
I've started reading middle grade books to my toddler, a few chapters a night. This was the first one I picked up and I'm so glad I did. First of all, I have fond memories of this book. My third grade teacher made a habit of reading to our class, a little bit every day, throughout the year. This was one of the books...
| Author | James Howe |
| ISBN | 0689839529 |
Dear possible reader of this book,
My editor asked me to write a third book in my series, Tales from the House of Bunnicula. And did I have trouble getting started! I was afraid I used up all my ideas. But faster than a writer can say "What if?" I came up with a story! It's about a lovable and smart (not to...
| Author | Jeanne Betancourt |
| ISBN | 0590742108 |
It is a chapter book and book 1 of the "Super Special Pony Pals" series. This one is to be read between Pony Pals book 9 and 10. My now grown daughter LOVED these books as a child (she begin to read them when she was about 8) and read all of the ones in the series. I found her copy of many of them and decided to...
On a wild Scottish island, a tragedy washes up on the storm-beaten shore: the bodies of a whale and a man. Fraser, desperate for adventure, and Hayley, visiting from Texas, become tangled in the mystery.
But Fraser's younger brother Dunny is distraught by the discovery. He hasn't spoken in...
| Author | Ian Whybrow |
| ISBN | 1575055503 |
Little Wolf is sent away by his parents because he has not been behaving badly enough. In disconsolate and hilarious letters home, Little Wolf chronicles his journey to Uncle Bigbad's Cunning College For Brute Beasts and his efforts to learn the Nine Rules of Badness. Ross’s ink drawings perfectly...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0440415837 |
THE GHOST IN THE NOON DAY SUN
Sid Fleischman
“Have Treasure-Need Kid Bait"
This is a light read for kids—no real meat for adults here--but good fun, with surprise twists one very other page—even on the Same page! Fourteen-year-old Oliver Finch dreams of going to sea, instead...
| Author | Ingrid Lee |
| ISBN | 1905294751 |
The plot of Dog Lost reads like a list of clichés. Twelve-year-old Mackenzie is given a pit bull puppy by his alcoholic, abusive father, who then loses his temper with the animal and throws it out. The bewildered pup learns to live on the streets, brings a touch of magic to the lonely, falls foul of a dog-fighting...
