The lost and found pony

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"The pony is a dream come true for a little girl. But the dream shatters when he is taken from her. Though time passes as the pony makes the best of his new life in the circus, he never stops hoping to find the little girl. And the girl never stops looking for him"--Dust jacket.

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

Genre:

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Ponies -- Juvenile fiction.

Girls -- Juvenile fiction.

Human-animal relationships -- Juvenile fiction.

Lost articles -- Juvenile fiction.

Circus -- Juvenile fiction.

Lost articles -- Fiction.

Ponies -- Fiction.

Horses -- Fiction.

Circus -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Feiwel and Friends,

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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

Publication Date:

2011

ISBN:

9780312592592

Publication Information:

New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2011.

Call Number:

P DOCKRAY

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Summary

The pony is a dream come true for a little girl. But the dream shatters when he is taken from her. Though time passes as the pony makes the best of his new life in the circus, he never stops hoping to find the little girl. And the girl never stops looking for him.

Author Notes

Tracy Dockray studied Fine Arts in New York. Her career spanned from sculpture to puppetry to painting murals in hospitals, school playgrounds, and children's rooms. Finally she began to illustrate children's books. She has illustrated over 20 books including two that she wrote herself and the Harper Collins editions of Beverly Cleary's Ramona Series and The Mouse and the Motorcycle Series.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

School Library Journal Review

PreS-K-The little pony at the heart of this surprisingly affecting story is thrilled when he becomes a little girl's perfect birthday present. He loves jumping and running with her on his back-until the day he encounters a jump too high. The little girl falls, and he is declared too small for her. Her parents sell him to the circus, where he brings joy to thousands of children, but he never forgets his first owner. When the circus closes down and he is sold at auction, who should buy him but the little girl, now an adult and running a stable of her own. In lesser hands, the story would be pure schmaltz, but the simple, straightforward narrative in the pony's voice, combined with Dockray's soft, expressive watercolor and ink illustrations, makes it truly heartwarming.-Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.