Author: VAN DER VEER, JUDY
Title: The Gray Mare's Colts
Description: San Carlos, CA: Golden Gate Junior Books, 1971. Hardcover. ISBN: 087464173X. Illustrated by Bernard Garbutt. Hard cover is yellow orange color with brown letterig on front and spine; photograph of author with her horse on rear board. Pages are clean and tight, as if unused. Illustrated with b/w drawings. "I have a son of hers, and a daughter, and two of her grandchildren. So far as I know, these are the only living descendants of the old gray mare. But, in a certain way, all my horses are the children of the gray mare, for she was the beginning of the horses in my life...The whole pattern of my life was changed when I became owner of the gray mare in the days when and I were young..." An absolutely wonderful biography that will ring very true for all horse crazed kids, and for some of us who have never outgrown our 'horsey' passion. From each horse we learn, and pass it along to the next one, and next one, always gaining new insights and knowledge, along with our ever growing love and profound attraction to these wonderful creatures. ; B&W Illustrations; 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.3 Inches; 131 pages; Cover has bumping, light sunning.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

Keywords: 087464173x Biography; Autobiography; Horses; Horse Stories; Animals; Animal Stories; Women Authors; Juvenile Animal Stories; Juvenile Literature; Juvenile Women/Womens' History Sports/Athletics Cultural History Animals Education Horses: : Nonfiction Socia