Children's picture book, adventures of an ex racehorse, trying new things and just horsing around.
Belle is an ex racehorse and has become part of the family – true she doesn’t live in the house with us, but I’m sure that given the chance she would live in the garden and come and demand carrots at the kitchen door.
In this book I’ve tried to capture, and do justice to, some of the day to day stories my daughter came home with about her ex racehorse. Horses can spook at the strangest things – a tractor and trailer rattling by, might be absolutely fine, but sheep in a field can be the scariest thing ever… and as for a fly-tipped corner bath! What sort of monster could that be?
"Write a story about Belle," said my daughter.
"But I don’t know about horses," was my reply, I think you need to know a subject to be able to write a story about it.
And so time passed, and I learnt more about horses, I sat on horses – even Belle – apparently my daughter had been wondering what would happen if she put a complete novice on Belle’s back… well I lived to tell the tale – literally.
The Blurb:
Belle is an ex racehorse, but she doesn’t know what that means. She was born to race, so what now…?
Maybe she’s a jumper, a dressage horse or an explorer… she still has the instinct to race whenever she gets the chance; but maybe just horsing around could be fun too.
