Jamieson Findlay
The Blue Roan Child
Chicken House, New York, 2004, 252 pp
12 year old Syeira is an orphan, and has grown up in the royal stables of the Hayselean
kingdom. She is very
good with horses, and is struck by the three wild horses the
king's men have just caught: a blue roan mare and her
two foals. An evil lord steals
the foals, and Syeira is able to set the mare free. She then helps the mare to find
the
foals. The mare, Arwin, and Syeira are able to communicate, though wordlessly:
it’s done through smells and
scent pictures.
Jamieson Findlay was born in 1958 in Canada. He was educated at Queen’s University,
Toronto, and has worked as a writer, teacher, and science journalist. In 2001, he
was awarded the National Magazine Award Silver Medal for an article in Canadian Geographic.
His one book thus far is a well-
Finding the book: The book is easy to find in the USA. It was not printed in the UK.
Sources and links:
Many thanks to Lisa Catz for the photograph .
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