The Good-luck Horse
Author: Chih-yi Chan
Publisher:
Published: 1943
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wah Toong's good-luck horse causes problems until he helps his master bring peace to the warring armies.
Author: Chih-yi Chan
Publisher:
Published: 1943
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wah Toong's good-luck horse causes problems until he helps his master bring peace to the warring armies.
Author: Elizabeth Koda-Callan
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2005-04-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780761138280
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A little girl finds the courage to ride when her mother gives her a tiny golden pony that radiates self-confidence.
Author: Vic Parker
Publisher: Miles Kelly Publishing
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781782094548
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Horse Stories The Good Luck Horse includes four beautifully illustrated tales of friendship and bravery to captivate kids aged 5+. Simply retold for young children, tales include extracts from Anna Sewell's Black Beauty book and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Each page is decorated with colourful illustrations by talented artists to make the book imaginative and fun. Horse Stories The Good Luck Horse is perfect for young children who have a passion of horse and ponies. Stories found in Horse Stories The Good Luck Horse: - My Breaking In, from Anna Sewell's Black Beauty - Alice and the White Knight, from Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass - The Ponies of the Plains by Long Lance - The Good Luck Horse, a Chinese folk tale An extract from The Good Luck Horse: One morning, the old man woke up to find that his favourite horse had broken out of its stall in the night and run away. He searched high and low, but could find no sign of where the stallion had gone. The bad news spread like wildfire throughout the village, and the old man's neighbours came to see him to say how sorry they were. They expected to find the old man very downcast and upset, but to their amazement, he seemed contented. The neighbours came to comfort the old man but instead he had to reassure them!
Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780152321970
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Because her good luck cat Woogie has already used up eight of his nine lives in narrow escapes from disaster, a Native American girl worries when he disappears.
Author: Coral Chen
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011-11
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 1467847763
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vievee Francis
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012-08-31
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0810128403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bold and skilled, Francis takes us into the still landscapes of Texas, evoking the African American South in fluid detail. Her poems become panhandle folktales fraught with the weight of memories both individual and collective. Her creative tangle of metaphors, people, and geography will keep the reader rooted in the good earth of extraordinary verse.
Author: Jane Smiley
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2005-04-19
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1400033179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of a novelist's lifelong obsession with horses. • "Exuberant...witty, completely delightful.... A kind of National Velvet for adults." —San Francisco Chronicle “Every horse story is a love story,” writes Jane Smiley, who has loved horses for most of her life and owned and bred them for a good part of it. To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this In particular she follows a sexy filly named Waterwheel and a grey named Wowie (he “tells” a horse communicator that he wants it changed from Hornblower) as they begin careers at the racetrack. Filled with humor and suspense, and with discourses on equine intelligence, affection, and character, A Year at the Races is a winner.
Author: Marianne Gingher
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2001-03-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780807126851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In pleasant contrast to the recent flood of haunted childhood memoirs, A Girl’s Life is about growing up in a functional family, about nurture, serenity, wonderment, and the stabilizing contributions an unencumbered heart makes in the life of an observant child. Marianne Gingher makes the events of a “normal” girlhood not only engaging but distinctly illuminating and explores rites of passage that are as persuasive in shaping an artist’s sensibilities as are privations. A meditation on the comforts of homeplace and family, A Girl’s Life celebrates the last era in America, the 1950s and 1960s, when it was still possible to enjoy a cynicism-free girlhood—when “it was still safe for children to take gifts from strangers and not yet unwise for them to leave the doors of their hearts unlocked.” As Eudora Welty wrote in her autobiographical memoir One Writer’s Beginnings, “A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.” The seventeen personal narratives collected here corroborate Welty’s conviction. Arranged in a loose chronology, the tales document a southern white girl’s middle-class initiation into the adult world. The first section, “Sanctuary,” recalls Gingher’s earliest impressions of family dynamics and shelter, a child’s yearnings and resourcefulness. “Truths and Grit,” the second section, deals with the tempering of bliss, a young girl’s first encounters with corruption and mortality. In the final group of essays, “Metaphors and Pies,” Gingher explores the contributions her recollections of childhood make in her ongoing trials as a parent and a writer. That her own childhood still permeates and inspires her present life is perhaps its greatest legacy. Did the way Marianne Gingher grow up compel her toward the writing life? Certainly the impact of that distant time, specific people and events, sensory-steeped moments, and the privilege of being allowed to dream as well as do enriched and fostered the writer’s imagination. By turns funny, provocative, jubilant, and tender, A Girl’s Life is perhaps most notable for both exalting and justifying the place of happiness in a writer’s development.
Author: Ken Callander
Publisher: Pan Australia
Published: 2008-07-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1741980593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For over 45 years, Ken Callander's been involved in horse racing as a journalist, TV and radio commentator, punter and owner – it's been his passion as well as his career. Ken's love of horse racing has taken him around the world and in this wonderful memoir he recounts some of the great stories of the people, places, races and horses he's known. He's watched the races at Royal Ascot from a private box, witnessed Mohammad Ali present a winner's trophy at the Kentucky Derby, and broadcast Channel 9's racing coverage from on top of Royal Randwick's manure pit. He's placed massive bets for Kerry Packer, but also given his best tips to the racing public. He's mixed with racing's elite, but never forgotten that the soul of racing in Australia lies with the passionate racing public, and perhaps it's this that has earned him such love and respect from racegoers and followers across the country. From starting out as newspaper copy boy to becoming the best-known face and voice of racing, Ken's memoirs are fascinating, warm-hearted and highly entertaining.