White horse childrens book

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north bucks Jun 30, 2009 12:47:03

I've read somewhere on this wonderful site about a childrens book that tells a fictional story of how the horse was created, but I can't remember where i saw it.

Can anyone tell me the author and the name of the book as i would like to try and get it for my 8 year old.

Thanks for any help.

moss Jun 30, 2009 13:29:04

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north bucks wrote:

I've read somewhere on this wonderful site about a childrens book that tells a fictional story of how the horse was created, but I can't remember where i saw it.

Can anyone tell me the author and the name of the book as i would like to try and get it for my 8 year old.

Thanks for any help.

This is not the book you are looking for about the making of the white horse, but Peter Please's 'The Chronicles of the White Horse' is a lovely book.....

http://www.peteralfredplease.co.uk/books/chronicles/chronicles.htm

goffik Jun 30, 2009 16:54:53

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Hiya

It could be this one, I guess:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sun-Horse-Moon-older-fiction/dp/0099795604

Sun Horse, Moon Horse by Rosemary Sutcliff.

Might be worth looking into getting it 2nd hand though! Pricey! :)

G x

VBB Jun 30, 2009 16:57:07

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Not sure if you mean Thomas Hughes, The Scouring of the White Horse (1859)?

It was based on Hughes returning to Uffington to witness the village feast and scouring and was published after the success of Tom Brown's Schooldays, which led to it being one of those great illustrated Victorian books of that period. It is more a light adult's book than an out and out childrens' book, not sure modern kids would think much of it.

Perhaps it is some other more modern book you were thinking of?

VBB

Pete G Jun 30, 2009 17:12:21

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A Hat full of Sky
Terry Pratchett

north bucks Jun 30, 2009 22:05:43

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Thanks for all the ideas.

It was Sun horse Moon horse by Rosemary Sutcliffe I was thinking about, and it will have to be second hand looking at that price!

The other books look interesting as well, anyone got any other suggestions?