Black Stallion (Hardcover): The Black Stallion (Hardcover)

from echoesofstars

The Black Stallion is about a boy, Alec, and a wild horse that survive a shipwreck, become friends, and go on to win a championship race. It is a well-written children's book especially aimed at boys. The book mainly focuses on the taming and training of the stallion. Henry, Alec's coach and frie...

from molliewatts

Alec Ramsay finds himself shipwrecked on a desert island with the wild and beautiful Black Stallion. They soon become friends and after they are rescued, Alec takes the Black to live with him, where he and trainer Henry Dailey begin to race the fiesty stallion. The first of many "Black Stallion" ...

from shumphreys

A heart-warming adventure story about a boy named Alec and a wild stallion named Black. The two are shipwrecked on an island and come to depend on eachother for survival. When rescued, Alec takes the horse with him and a horse trainer near where he lives helps him train the horse to race. Grades ...

from ktibbs

This is an excellent adventure story that follows a young boy, Alec as he embarks on an adventure out to sea by himself after visiting his uncle. Disaster strikes when the ship sinks and Alec and a wild stallion horse are the only survivors stranded on the island. Alec begins to befriend the stal...

from ShellyCBuchanan

This well-loved classic about a young boy in a shipwreck, saved by a wild stallion stranded with him on a tropical island, and finally rescued to return home with his horse-savior is a bit of a period piece, to be savored by those immersed or interested in the time period in which it was written,...