"National Velvet"
By: by Enid Bagnold ; frontispiece by Walter Seaton ; illustrations by Earle B. Winslow.
Contributors: Winslow, Earle, b. 1884, ill.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Horses -- Fiction.; Horse racing -- Fiction.; Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase.