War Horse
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780007437269 (0007437269)
Publish date: April 1st 2011
Publisher: Collins Educational
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
SUMMARYJoey, a beautiful blood-red bay colt, is purchased at an auction out of spite and brought to be a farm horse. There, he develops a relationship with farm boy Albert, a bond that will last even when the two are separated for war. WORLDBUILDINGI’m not into war stories, but I’m less into WWII th...
A powerful read about a horse and his boy.
I've been interested in seeing the movie War Horse since I heard about it. Oh and about the cast: And for other reasons... I realized it was a book and picked it up as an audiobook. It's not a long audiobook, just over four hours. Since I had a lot of driving for work I ended up finishing it ...
bookshelves: wwi, kiddlewinks, play-dramatisation, published-1982, autumn-2010, war, young-adult Recommended for: BBC7 listeners Read on November 14, 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...First World War tale of a boy's extraordinary bond with his horse. Stars Timothy Spall, Brenda Blet...
I listened to this on audio and was listening to this while making my way to a ‘gig’ at Wooster College in Ohio, where I was to draw caricatures. Drawing caricatures for the public requires a certain amount of upbeat interaction, so it might not have been a good time to cry over Joey the War Horse....