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Jane Badger Books
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Macdonald, London

Speical conents copyright Grosset U Dunlap, Inc.

Undated.  Part of The Illustrated Junior Library.

Hardback.  Decorated boards in cream with turquoise horse heads and brown leaves; spine brown with turquoise horse head, turquoise lettering on white background.  Colour endpapers (same front and rear). 288pp.  Colour frontis. 6 full page colour illustrations.  Numerous chapter decorations and text illustrations.

 

Some of the illustrations have a rather relentless jollity:  I prefer the line drawings in general.  The people and surroundings are much better depicted than the horses, who are occasionally anthropomorphised, presumably to emphasise the fact they talk to each other.

Fritz Eichenberg