Wednesday, February 8, 2023

“King of the Wind”

“King of the Wind” by: Marguerite Henry 1949 Newbery Winner.

This was a fun little book about how Arabian horses came to be in Europe and then eventually to America. I didn’t do any research to see if there was any truth to the story or if it's just a fond imagining of how it happened. Either way it was a cute tale about a boy who was chosen to go with a horse who was given to the king of England, and then given to or taken by all sorts of people and how the boy stayed with the horse for its entire life. The boy is a mute who still manages to go far beyond expectations. He does so by sticking to what he believes and trying to always do right by the horse he has been left in charge of. I got the impression the moral of the story was to stick with what you are told to do no matter what and no matter how hard your life is you will overcome and everything will be alright.

Does someone die? Yeah but not till the end and it was of old age.

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