The Finest Horse in Town by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

The Finest Horse in Town by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Long before my mother was born, her aunts owned a store in a small village in Maine. They had a smart gray horse who pulled a shiny black buggy when they went out riding. Prince was the finest horse in town. But no one remembers who took care of that beautiful animal while the aunts were working in their store: perhaps it was a sneaky trader who tried to steal him, perhaps it was a one-legged harmonica player who taught him to dance; perhaps it was two children who once saved Prince's life. Jacqueline Briggs Martin, author of Caldecott winner Snowflake Bentley, really did have two great-aunts who owned a horse like Prince. In The Finest Horse in Town she recreates life in a small American town as it might have been at the turn of the 20th century. Susan Gaber's extraordinary watercolor paintings make the people and events in these three stories truly come alive.

Snowflake Bentley won the Caldecott Medal in 1999, while The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish was an ALA Noteworthy Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book, a Riverbank Review Finalist, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book, and the recipient of The Golden Kite Award for Illustration. She grew up on a farm in Maine that was similar to the one depicted in this narrative. She is a resident of Mt. Vernon is a town in Iowa.

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ISBN 13	9781930900271
ISBN 10	1930900279
Title	The Finest Horse in Town
Author	Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Purple House Press
Year published	2008-02-06
Number of pages	32
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.