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Long before my mother was born, her aunts owned a store in a small village in Maine. They had a smart gray horse who pulled a shiny black buggy when they went out riding.

Prince was the finest horse in town. But no one remembers who took care of that beautiful animal while the aunts were working in their store: perhaps it was a sneaky trader who tried to steal him; perhaps it was a one-legged harmonica player who taught him to dance; perhaps it was two children who once saved Prince's life.

Jacqueline Briggs Martin really did have two great-aunts who owned a horse like Prince. In The Finest Horse in Town, she recreated life in a small American town as it might have been at the turn of the 20th century. Susan Gaber’s extraordinary watercolor paintings make the people and events in these three stories truly come alive.

From the back cover of the 2016 Purple House Press reprint

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Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Jacqueline Briggs Martin

1945 -
American
Jacqueline Briggs Martin has written more than fifteen picture books, including Caldecott Award-winning Snowflake Bentley and, most recently,&n... See more
Susan Gaber

Susan Gaber

1956-
American
Susan Gaber's illustrations have graced the pages of such picture books as The Stable Where Jesus Was Born by Rhonda Gowler Greene. The La... See more

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The Finest Horse in Town Reprint

The Finest Horse in Town
Reprinted in 2003 by Purple House Press
Available formats: Hardcover, Paperback
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