Everything But The Horse

Author: Holly Hobbie

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  • : $28.99 AUD
  • : 9780316070195
  • : Little, Brown & Company
  • : Little, Brown Young Readers
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  • : 01 November 2010
  • : 230mm X 304mm X 11mm
  • : United States
  • : 01 March 2011
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Barcode 9780316070195
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Description

This gorgeous, resonant tale is a sweet recollection from Holly's childhood about her love affair with horses. When Holly's family moves from the city to the countryside, she's scared of this new world at first - but gradually comes to loves the animals she encounters and draws the horses in the local pastures obsessively, hinting to her parents what she wants more than anything. When she finds a bike in the barn for her birthday instead of a horse, she learns to love what is hers no matter what could've been. Written with a lighthearted touch and a bucolic sense of the countryside, Holly has tapped into a rich and nostalgic look that hearkens back to the artwork that first made her famous decades ago.

Author description

Holly Hobbie has worked as an artist for more than thirty years and is the author of ten previous and highly acclaimed Toot & Puddle picture books, as well as Fanny, Fanny & Annabelle and an illustrated memoir, The Art of Holly Hobbie.