Friday, May 23, 2008
Challenge: Another Blooming Challenge
Do you know how hard it is to find books that have the same flower in the title? I had one book with a flower, Dandelion Wine, so it seemed serendipitous (great word) when I was able to mooch another Dandelion book.
Dandelion is a young horse whose parents are Clydesdales. However, she seems to be a throwback to an ancient Arabian ancestor and it just funny looking. The story follows her development from a foal whose crazy antics irritate her sullen owner who just wanted another work horse like the mother, Daisy. Her second year, Dandelion pastures with the neighbor's race horses and decides she will be a race horse also. Of course, that is not to be; and soon enough she is yoked up with her mother to do farm work. The situation deteriorates when Daisy dies; and Dandelion can't even come close to measuring up to her mother in the farmer's eyes. Eventually she escapes, almost starves to death and meets a wise old horse who teaches her to find the answers to her life's journey inside herself. She has to imagine what she will be and then it will happen. Yes, you guessed it. This is a self-improvement book couched within a cute horse story. It is all about finding your way by listening to your inner self and be guided by your intuitions. Then you must focus on what that outcome is to be.
So if you like horse stories or self-improvement book, you would probably enjoy this book. I'm not too big on either, so it was just so-so for me.
Rating: 2.5
Posted by Framed at 10:35 PM
2 comments:
Jeane said...
My toddler has a picture book about a lion named Dandelion who goes to a party! Is this one of the horse juvenile fic? Sounds like aimed at middle grade, but if it's written for an older audience I might be curious of it.
5/24/2008 4:00 AM
gautami tripathy said...
Actually this sounds like a cool book for children!
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