National Velvet. Enid Bagnold
by:
Enid Bagnold (author)
Velvet Brown is a 14 year old girl living in small coastal village in the 1920s. She dreams of owning and training horses one day. When her and her friend Mi see a piebald horse jump a five foot fence, they decide to follow Velvet's dream to ride in the Grand National. But will Velvet be allowed...
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Velvet Brown is a 14 year old girl living in small coastal village in the 1920s. She dreams of owning and training horses one day. When her and her friend Mi see a piebald horse jump a five foot fence, they decide to follow Velvet's dream to ride in the Grand National. But will Velvet be allowed to ride in the race? And can The Pie really win the most prestigious prize in all of steeplechasing? A horse-racing classic, National Velvet has entertained generations of horse lovers with dreams of riding in races themselves.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781405264181 (1405264187)
Publish date: October 1st 2012
Publisher: Egmont Heritage
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Animals,
Horses
The story was enjoyable, though not what I expected. Though it is indeed a horse story, it's also the story of a family in post-war England. I would imagine that it would be a bit of a slog for young people to get through; there's a lot of British slang and horse terms that many would find quite l...
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