The story is that Irina, a farm girl, gets a wooden toy horse for a Christmas present. I have very fond memories of this book, as it fulfilled the little girl’s horse fantasy, but at the same time it taught an important lesson that I still carry to this day and that I credit to this book. This is a short, fast-reading book published in 1992 that I’ve had for many years. In our Reading with Kids adventures, the next book to come up is The Enchanted Horse by Magdalen Nabb. Her first book, Josie Smith, was runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 1989, and in l99l, Josie Smith and Eileen was winner of the prestigious Smarties Book Prize for the 6-8 age group. Magdalen Nabb also writes the immensely successful Josie Smith books, set in her native Lancashire, which form the basis of the Granada children's TV series, Josie Smith, scripted by the author. It's a problem the Marshal comes up against all the time.' Walk down any residential street and you have no idea what is going on behind those blank walls. She has written fourteen crime novels featuring Marshal Guarnaccia of the carabinieri, all set in Florence, which she describes as 'a very secret city. She has lived there ever since, and pursues a dual career as crime writer and children's author. In 1975 she abandoned pottery, sold her home and her car, and came to Florence with her son, knowing nobody and speaking no Italian.
Urn:oclc:822728202 Scandate 20111024040714 Scanner NABB was born in Lancashire in 1947 and trained as a potter. O元471619W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 81.00 Pages 102 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0007317336 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:08:26 Boxid IA125016 Boxid_2 CH120121109-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1st Hyperion pbk.
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