num_pages: 32
description: Long before my mother was born, her aunts owned a store in a small village in Maine. They had a smart gray horse who pulled a shiny black buggy when they went out riding.Prince was the finest horse in town. But no one remembers who took care of that beautiful animal while the aunts were working in their store: perhaps it was the sneaky trader who tried to steal him; perhaps it was a one-legged harmonica player who taught him to dance; perhaps it was the two children who once saved Prince's life.Jacqueline Briggs Martin really did have two great-aunts who owned a horse like Prince. She recreates life in a small American town as it might have been at the turn of the century. Susan Gaber's extraordinary watercolor paintings make the people and events in these three stories truly come alive.
language: English
title: The Finest Horse in Town
titlecomplete: The Finest Horse in Town
genres: 1st Grade, Read For School, Childrens, Picture Books
ratings_count: 36
publisher: Purple House Inc