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Summary
When a girl receives a small horse from her aunt, she doesn't quite know what to do with it. It turns out that this horse is a very special horse: it has wings.
As the horse grows and grows, so does the girl's love for it, but as everyone knows, sometimes you have to let go of those you love so they can grow in their own way. But you can always hope they come back to you someday.
Eve Bunting's Thunder Horse is a beautifully crafted tale that will work its way in to the hearts of readers, and the good thing is, they never have to let it go.
Author Notes
Eve Bunting was born in 1928 in Maghera, Ireland, as Anne Evelyn Bunting. She graduated from Northern Ireland's Methodist College in Belfast in 1945 and then studied at Belfast's Queen's College. She emigrated with her family in 1958 to California, and became a naturalized citizen in 1969.
That same year, she began her writing career, and in 1972, her first book, "The Two Giants" was published. In 1976, "One More Flight" won the Golden Kite Medal, and in 1978, "Ghost of Summer" won the Southern California's Council on Literature for Children and Young People's Award for fiction. "Smokey Night" won the American Library Association's Randolph Caldecott Medal in 1995 and "Winter's Coming" was voted one of the 10 Best Books of 1977 by the New York Times.
Bunting is involved in many writer's organizations such as P.E.N., The Authors Guild, the California Writer's Guild and the Society of Children's Book Writers. She has published stories in both Cricket, and Jack and Jill Magazines, and has written over 150 books in various genres such as children's books, contemporary, historic and realistic fiction, poetry, nonfiction and humor.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 2-4-In this long picture book, Bunting writes the story of a girl who is gifted a tiny horse by her mysterious aunt. Acquired in Greece, the tiny horse comes with the warning that one day it will change and eventually leave the little girl. The horse lives with the girl in her apartment where she feeds him, walks him, and even takes him to school. As the horse grows, he begins to develop wings. The girl names him Pegasus and is thrilled when he eventually allows her to ride him through the night. One day, the girl realizes that Pegasus is ready to leave, and sadly she watches him fly off into the night, becoming a shining star in the vast sky. With gorgeous soft pastel illustrations, this is a gentle story of love, letting go, and believing that magic still exists in the world. VERDICT For more confident readers, or to be shared as a longer read-aloud, this is a lovely general purchase for most libraries.-Jasmine L. Precopio, Fox Chapel Area School District, Pittsburgh © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
When her aunt Aldora gives her a tiny live horse, a little girl is astonished. Her aunt hints that he is a magical creature who will grow and change and one day will want to leave. Each double-page spread is drawn in watercolors in slightly blurred soft sepia tones that suggest an otherworldly tone. The delineated horse and girl and details glow, as the little horse matures and begins to sprout tiny nubs on his shoulders. When her teacher reads her the Greek myth about Pegasus, the winged horse, the girl looks for the thunder horse's constellation in the night sky. One day Pegasus invites her to ride upon his back into the sky, like riding through a dream . . . wrapped in magic. One day her thunder horse does fly away, off into an azure firmament; later, the girl is comforted by a shooting star, convinced it is her beloved horse. In the glorious final spread, horse and girl fly once again, as the last half page illuminates the Pegasus constellation.--Gepson, Lolly Copyright 2017 Booklist