But when I was in high school and worked in the library, the “big three” horse books that were so popular with the girls who rode horses were Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara, and National Velvet by Enid Bagnold, which is about a fourteen year old English girl named Velvet Brown who, with the help of her friend Mi Taylor, takes a horse that she won in a raffle, runs him in the Grand National jumping race, and wins, but was disqualified because only men were allowed to ride the horses. Marguerite Henry has written many good horse books, and Walter Farley has a whole set of “Black Stallion” books. Next to dogs, horses are about the most popular animals for young people’s stories.
Inc., New York City, NY republished in 1965 by Scholastic Book Services, a division of Scholastic Magazines Inc., New York City, NY). National Velvet (published in 1935 by William Morrow and Co. Reading level: Ages 8-12 given, but I would say ages 13 – 18įor more information e-mail Enid. Language level: 3 (a couple of instances of taking the Lord’s name in vain) Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, reprinted in 1999
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