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Sand Horse - Turnbull Ann


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Sand Horse - Turnbull Ann

 
Description: ISBN 1842700995 / Genre: Junior Books

Newest Review: ... day. But the artwork, however good, is, in this case, just a supporting tool for the text, fairly important but by no means ... more

 ... vital. Ann Turnbull is a novelist who writes for older children/teenagers and this is her first picture book. I am not familiar with her other work, but `The Sand Horse` is a brilliant accomplishment. Not a very long read (just under 30 pages, formatted as hardly more than captions under the full page illustrations), the story is told in a language which is at the same time simple and rich and poetic. Turnbull is not afraid of slightly more difficult words, but the structure of the text is of such clarity that it...more

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Crowned Review Sand Horse - Turnbull Ann: LET THEM GALLOP THROUGH YOUR DREAMS (893 words)
by - written on 30/11/04 (Very useful, 140 readings)
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You call them `white horses` in English and in Polish they are called `manes`. Clearly, there is something distinctly equine about the white sea waves. But what if there really were horses, galloping in the waves, frisking, prancing, flicking their tails? Read this remarkable little book to find out. An artist who lives in St Ives goes out on the beach to build sand sculptures. One day, he builds a horse out of sand, and when the artist is gone, the people leave the beach - the sand horse wakes up and starts listening to those other ones, the free ones in the bay, galloping through the waves, calling him to the giant blue meadow out there, to Land`s End, to ...  Read the complete review

 

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