"National Velvet National Velvet is a novel by Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), first published in 1935. ""National Velvet"" is the story of a 14-year-old girl named Velvet Brown, who trains and rides her horse, named The Piebald, to victory in the Grand National steeplechase. The novel focuses on the ability of ordinary people, particularly women, to accomplish great things. Velvet is a teenager in the late 1920s, living in a small English coastal village in Sussex, dreaming of one day owning many horses. She is a high-strung, shy, nervous child with a delicate stomach. Her mother is a wise, taciturn woman"
"and fascinated by a young girl's winning its toughest race. Velvet and The Piebald become instant celebrities, with Velvet and her family nearly drowning in notoriety (echoing her mother's unsought fame after swimming the English Channel), complete with merchandising. Velvet strongly objects to the publicity, saying The Piebald is a creature of glory who should not be cheapened in tabloid trash and newsreels. She insists that she did not win the race, the horse did, and she simply wanted to see him go down in history. The National Hunt Committee finds no evidence of fraud, exonerates all involved, and Velvet"
"Good Luck to the Rider Good Luck to the Rider (1953) is the first children's book by Australian author Joan Phipson; it was illustrated by Margaret Horder. It was joint winner of the in 1953. Barbara Trevor is the youngest of four children living on their parents' farm in country Australia. Barbara has acquired a horse, which she calls Rosinante, though she doesn't know the origin of the name. The book follows her attempts to school her horse and come to terms with her own life. In a survey of children's books to signal the commencement of Children's Book Week"
"Sebald, is an odyssey of a kindertransport boy brought up in a Welsh manse who later traces his origins to Prague and then goes back there. He finds someone who knew his mother, and he retraces his journey by train. ""Sisterland"", a young adult novel by Linda Newbery, concerns a Kindertransport child, Sarah Reubens, who is now a grandmother; sixteen-year-old Hilly uncovers the secret her grandmother has kept hidden for years. This novel was shortlisted for the 2003 Carnegie Medal. ""My Family for the War"", a young adult novel by Anne C. Voorhoeve, recounts the story of Franziska Mangold, a"
"fourteen) and ""Books for Young Persons"" (for those between fourteen and twenty-one), establishing terms of reference for young adult literature that still remains in use. Nineteenth century literature presents several early works, that appealed to young readers, though not necessarily written for them, including ""The Swiss Family Robinson"" (1812), Walter Scott's ""Waverley"" (1814), Charles Dickens' ""Oliver Twist"" (1838), Alexandre Dumas' ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" (1844), ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"" (1857), Dickens' ""Great Expectations"" (1860), ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1865), Mark Twain's ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876), and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Kidnapped"" (1886), Rudyard Kipling's ""The"
"Dartmoor and the Welsh. ""Dinah: The Dartmoor Pony"" (1935) is perhaps the most similar of Seaby’s novels to the typical formulaic pony story: separated from her dam as a foal, Dinah finds her way onto a farm where twelve-year-old Dolly looks after her, eventually breaking her in, before winning two red rosettes in a local gymkhana. ""Sheltie: The Story of a Shetland Pony"" (1939) describes a young riding school owner's attempt to ride home from the Highlands to the South of England, leading Sheltie. ""Mona: The Welsh Pony"" (1948), set along the Mawddach estuary near Abermaw (Barmouth) and in the"
"""Ballet Shoes"". It also has main characters of both sexes, like the winner of that first year's medal, ""Pigeon Post"". The Circus Is Coming The Circus Is Coming is a children's novel by Noel Streatfeild, about the working life of a travelling circus. It was first published in 1938 with illustrations by Steven Spurrier. For this novel, Streatfeild was awarded the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. American editions and some later British editions are titled Circus Shoes. After an unusually sheltered upbringing by their old-fashioned and snobbish aunt,"
"horse, it's bound to be love at first sight, confidence in the last chapter, but with Joan Phipson putting the familiar plot through its paces almost every moment counts"". Good Luck to the Rider Good Luck to the Rider (1953) is the first children's book by Australian author Joan Phipson; it was illustrated by Margaret Horder. It was joint winner of the in 1953. Barbara Trevor is the youngest of four children living on their parents' farm in country Australia. Barbara has acquired a horse, which she calls Rosinante, though she doesn't know the origin of the name. The book"
"Caddie Woodlawn Caddie Woodlawn is a children's historical fiction novel by Carol Ryrie Brink which received the Newbery Medal in 1936 and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. The original 1935 edition was illustrated by Newbery-award-winning author and illustrator Kate Seredy. Macmillan released a later edition in 1973, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. Set in the 1860s, it is about a lively eleven-year-old tomboy named Caroline Augusta Woodlawn, nicknamed ""Caddie"", living in the area of Dunnville, Wisconsin. As a young girl she made the journey from Boston to Dunnville with her family, one which nearly cost her life. Sickly"
"The Snowball (children's novel) The Snowball (first published 1969) is a fantasy novel for children by the English writer Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982), who is best known for her Carbonel series. The two main characters are Tom Tickle, aged eight, and his sister Tilda, aged six. The story is set in a small house on the edge of a small English country town. The children are on a loose rein, as their mother is soon called away to nurse some relations of theirs through a bout of measles, leaving them with their preoccupied father, a schoolmaster who is writing a book"
"Anne Digby Anne Digby (born 1942) is a prolific British children's writer best known for the Trebizon series published between 1978 and 1994. Digby attended North London Collegiate School before becoming a magazine journalist, and lived in Paris for a time. She then worked as a press officer for Oxfam in Oxford. Her first novel was ""A Horse Called September"" (1975). From 1978 to 1994 she wrote fourteen school story novels set in the fictional Cornish boarding school Trebizon. She has also written the ""Me, Jill Robinson"" series of books, the ""Jug Valley Juniors"" series, ""Quicksilver Horse"" and ""The Big"
"who was once famous for swimming the English Channel; her father is a butcher. Velvet's best friend is her father's assistant, Mi (Michael) Taylor, whose father – as Mrs. Brown's swimming coach – helped her cross the channel. Mi formerly worked in stables and is familiar with the horse racing world. One day they both watch The Piebald jump over a five-foot-high cobbled fence to escape a field. Mi remarks that ""a horse like that'd win the National"". Velvet becomes obsessed with winning the horse in an upcoming raffle and riding him to greatness. In addition to inheriting several horses"
"Crusade in Jeans Crusade in Jeans (1973) is a children's novel written by Thea Beckman. It contains a fictional account of the children's crusade of 1212, as witnessed by Rudolf Hefting, a boy from the 20th century. The original Dutch title is ""Kruistocht in spijkerbroek"". A film version was released in 2006. Rudolf ""Dolf"" Wega is a fourteen-year-old who volunteers for an experiment with a time machine. The experiment goes well, but through an accident Dolf is stranded in the 13th century. He saves the life of Leonardo Fibonacci, without realizing who he is, and teaches him Arabic numerals. Together"
"Bealby Bealby: A Holiday is a 1915 comic novel by H. G. Wells. ""Bealby"" is the story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the great house of an estate named Shonts (his stepfather, Mr. Darling, is a gardener there) and flees—not, however, before thoroughly upsetting a weekend party where the ""nouveau riche"" couple renting Shonts is entertaining the Lord Chancellor. Bealby's week-long ""holiday"" has three phases. First, he is taken up by three women in caravan, one of whom, Madeleine Philips, is a well-known actress whose beauty inspires"
"two children have caught measles as well (p. 88). The first, bound edition appeared from Brockhampton Press in 1969. The same illustrations were used for a Dutch translation. The second English edition in 1977 came from Hodder in hardback and paperback, and the third was a paperback from the Hamlyn series Beaver Books in 1980, with illustrations by John Spiers. The Snowball (children's novel) The Snowball (first published 1969) is a fantasy novel for children by the English writer Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982), who is best known for her Carbonel series. The two main characters are Tom Tickle, aged eight, and"
"collections: ""The Camels Are Coming"" (1932), and ""Biggles of the Camel Squadron"" (1934). The 1934 novel ""Winged Victory"" by Victor M. Yeates features the Sopwith Camel in action during the Great War. In the 1975 George Roy Hill film ""The Great Waldo Pepper"", the title character, flying a Camel, takes part in a dogfight with a Fokker Dr.I. Sopwith Camels feature in the 2013 novel ""A Splendid Little War"" by Derek Robinson which depicts a fictional RAF unit – Merlin Squadron – flying Camels in support of the White forces during the Russian Civil War in 1919. A 1/6 scale"
"M. C. Higgins, the Great M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974) is a realistic novel by Virginia Hamilton that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1975. It also won the National Book Award in category Children's Books and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; it was the first book to do so, and only one other book has done so since (""Holes"", by Louis Sachar). ""M.C. Higgins"" is a coming-of-age novel; it covers three eventful days in the life of teenager Mayo Cornelius Higgins. Its setting is in the Appalachian mountains on Sarah's Mountain, a fictional"
"Woodberry, follow the cheap ""formula"" pattern of the comic book, in which a group of slick youngsters, chattering a lot of slick slang, embark on a series of slick adventures. It offers only escape entertainment of the most mediocre kind."" Rafferty Rides a Winner Rafferty Rides a Winner (1961) is a novel for children by Australian author Joan Woodberry, illustrated by the author. It was joint winner of the in 1962. Rafferty, an English boy attempting to learn how to become Australian, and his friends attempt to scrape together 60 pounds via a series of various means in order to"
"The Great Wheel The Great Wheel is Robert Lawson's final children's book, published in 1957, the year of his death. It was posthumously named as a Newbery Honor book in 1958. The story's protagonist is Irish-born Conn Kilroy, who leaves Ireland for the United States in the 1890s at the urging of his Uncle Michael. Before he leaves, his aunt predicts that he will ride the biggest wheel in the world. He travels to the United States by steamship. While on board, he meets an attractive German girl named Trudy, who is traveling to Wisconsin. Upon his arrival, he begins"
"The Chronicles of Prydain The Chronicles of Prydain is a pentalogy of children's high fantasy Bildungsroman novels written by American author Lloyd Alexander. Henry Holt published one annually from 1964 to 1968; the second earned a 1966 Newbery Honor and the last won the 1969 Newbery Medal. The five novels follow the protagonist Taran from youth to maturity, most overtly in the fourth book, ""Taran Wanderer"". Taran has the title Assistant Pig-Keeper at Caer Dallben but initially dreams of being a grand hero. His most important companions in adventure are Princess Eilonwy, a girl his age; Fflewddur Fflam, a wandering"
"The Red Pony The Red Pony is an episodic novella written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1933. The first three chapters were published in magazines from 1933–1936, and the full book was published in 1937 by Covici Friede. The stories in the book are tales of a boy named Jody Tiflin. The book has four different stories about Jody and his life on his father's California ranch. Other main characters include Carl Tiflin – Jody's father; Billy Buck – an expert in horses and a working hand on the ranch; Mrs. Tiflin – Jody's mother; Jody's grandfather – Mrs."
"A Ride into Morning A Ride into Morning is a historical novel by Ann Rinaldi about the legend surrounding Tempe Wick, one of America's most famous heroines. It is part of the Great Episodes series. It is told in first-person narration. In the midst of the American Revolution, fourteen-year-old Mary Cooper moves in with her twenty-two-year-old cousin, Tempe Wick, and Tempe's elderly mother, Mary Wick, after Mary's Tory family discovered that she was participating in the Patriot cause. Her brother, Abraham is also a Patriot soldier. Mary's cousin lives near where the American soldiers have camped for the winter. Two"
"while in high school. Mary Galbraith makes a connection between ""Mulberry Street"" and Geisel's fears about the spread of Nazism. Geisel conceived of the story while returning from a European vacation that coincided with the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, and Galbraith contends that in the book the ""mayor's small mustache and raised arm evoke Hitler, while the brass band and international cast of characters evoke the parade of nations at the beginning of the games"". She argues that the horse and wagon at the beginning of the story evokes the peaceful German Americans of Springfield, and by extension the"
"The Great Quest The Great Quest by Charles Boardman Hawes is a children's adventure novel which was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1922. Illustrated by George Varian, it was published by The Atlantic Monthly Press in 1921. The story opens in fictional Topham, Massachusetts, in 1826. After the man Cornelius ""Neal"" Gleazen unexpectedly returns to town, he involves childhood friend Seth Woods and Seth's nephew, twenty-year-old protagonist Josiah ""Joe"" Woods, in a dangerous sea journey to retrieve a hidden treasure. Accompanying them are Seth's two store-clerks, Arnold Lamont and Sim Muzzy, and farmer Abraham Guptil, on whose mortgage Neal forced"
"their private car, with the entire cross-country run taking 87 hours 35 minutes. Kipling also recalled: Disko Troop claims to receive his given name for his birth on board his father's ship near Disko Island on the west coast of Greenland. His crewman 'Long Jack' once calls him ""Discobolus"". ""Captains Courageous"" has been adapted for film three times: Musical theatre: Other adaptations: Captains Courageous Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in"
"dominate the countryside. ""The Various"" won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award, was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Eleven-year old Margaret Walters, better known as Midge, is sent to stay with her Uncle Brian at Mill Farm in Somerset, England while her mother is on tour with the orchestra. She stumbles across secrets and things that have been kept from her about her childhood, which makes her wonder about where she came from. While exploring, she comes across a small winged horse named Pegs, which is trapped and injured in a"
"Mi on the road. She tells him that his father was Mrs. Brown's coach as the first woman to swim the English Channel. The film differs from the book in a number of respects. For example, Velvet's horse in the book is a piebald, and thus is given the name ""The Piebald"" or ""The Pie"" for short. In the movie, Pie is a chestnut, and another explanation for his name was given. Velvet, in the book, is a sickly child who is given to great imagination and spirit; her father is stern and given to anger, but the mother is"
"picture of childhood presented in novels such as Charles Dickens's ""Oliver Twist"" (1837–39). One scholar has suggested that it ""influenced Dickens's depictions of Pip's fears of the convict, the gibbet, and 'the horrible young man' at the close of Chapter 1"" in ""Great Expectations"" (1860–61). Children's literature scholar Gillian Avery has argued that ""The Fairchild Family"" was ""as much a part of English childhood as ""Alice"" was later to become."" As late as the 1900s, Lord Frederic Hamilton states that he attended a party at which each guest dressed up as a character from the book. Although the book was"
"Reviews, Amazon.com, and the American Library Association Notable Children's Book list among others. It has also won several awards abroad. In Germany, it was awarded the Lufti (Bronze) and the Ulmer Unke, and in the United Kingdom it won the Sheffield Children's Book Prize for Longer Novels and the Stockport Schools' Book Award. It was also longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Elsewhere (Zevin novel) Elsewhere is a 2005 young adult, speculative novel by Gabrielle Zevin. Fifteen-year-old Liz is hit and killed by a taxi. When she wakes up, she finds herself in the cabin of a ship named the SS"
"Grace"" (1904; a romance set in Elizabethan London), ""The Man at Lone Lake"" (1912), ""The Golden Apple Tree"" (1920), ""Below the Salt"" (1936), and ""Leaves in the Wind"" (1936). Her poetry was collected in the volumes ""The Miracle and Other Poems"" (1913), ""Carry On!"" (1917), ""The Ballad of the Quest"" (1922), ""Candle Flame"" (1926), and ""Fairy Doors"" (1932). Her poem ""The Young Knights"", which opens with the lines ""Now they remain to us forever young / Who with such splendour gave their youth away"", is often cited among Canadian women's literary responses to World War I. Of her novel ""By"
"Little Red Riding Hood ""Little Red Riding Hood"" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Its origins can be traced back to the 10th century by several European folk tales, including one from Italy called ""The False Grandmother"" (), later written among others by Italo Calvino in the ""Italian Folktales"" collection; the best known versions were written by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. The story has been changed considerably in various retellings and subjected to numerous modern adaptations and readings. Other names for the story are: """"Little Red Ridinghood"""", """"Little Red Cap"""""
"(1934), which was an immediate success. It was based on Channel Island stories, many of which she had learned from her mother, a native of Guernsey. Elizabeth herself regularly visited Guernsey as a child, and recalled in her autobiography ""The Joy of the Snow"" spending many of her summers with her maternal grandparents and relatives. For ""The Little White Horse"", published by the University of London Press in 1946, Goudge won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. It was her own favourite among her works. Goudge was a"
"novel ""The Bridge"" was a work of young adult fiction with illustrations by Evaline Ness. It told the story of an elderly man and his teenage granddaughter battling to preserve their way of life, threatened by greedy relatives and a dangerous storm. Another book for young adults was ""Big Caesar"", illustrated by Joe Krush, a story about a boy's interest in an old truck. In 1965 he published ""The Gold of the River Sea"", a novel based on his early experiences traveling in Brazil. Today Ogburn may be known best for several books and articles on the Shakespeare authorship question,"