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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
All time favourite I read this when I was ten and have read it at least once a year ever since, along with I Capture the Castle,The Swish of the Curtain and Three Men in a Boat. All of them inspired me to write myself, and although I can't hold a candle to any of them, I made it eventually. The book is a work of genius.
Such a pity that of the two negative reviews, one was so badly written I question how well the reviewer could read?
Delightful, magical little story - won the Carnegie Medal for children's literature in 1946. I was drawn to reading 'The Little White Horse' when I first saw J. K. Rowling's comments about the book ...'I absolutely adored 'The Little White Horse. It had a cracking plot... It was scary and romantic in parts and had a feisty heroine.' So, having not read the book as a child I've come to it as an adult and thoroughly enjoyed it! The year is 1842 and Maria Merryweather is a petite plain orphaned girl with silvery-grey eyes, straight reddish hair and a thin pale face. She has had to leave the... more info
One of the prettiest books ever I simply love this book. First I read it a year ago or so in my maternal language as I'm not from England but I'm also going to buy it in English. The Little White Horse is one of the books you can't possibly call kitshy, even though I've seen the commments like that. Elizabeth Goudge is an amazing author with a real gift of writing. Read it absolutely!
Rejuvenating. I love this book. Refreshingly uncynical and set in beautiful places, it's like an elixir, which I can sip when feeling jaded and world-weary.
