The Little White Horse
Author:
Elizabeth Goudge 
Illustrator:
C. Walter Hodges
Publication:
1946 by University of London Press Ltd
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The setting of this enchanting story is in a West Country village, a hundred years ago. Maria, the heroine, her governess and her dog go to live in the old and rather mysterious Manorhouse of Moonacre; and Maria's encounters with many queer but delightful people, with the illusive Little White Horse and the wicked Black Men of the woods are told in the refreshingly imaginative manner readers have come to expect from the author of GREEN DOLPHIN COUNTRY and HENRIETTA'S HOUSE.
THE LITTLE WHITE HORSE was chosen by the Library Association as "an outstanding children's book of 1946," and for this work Miss Elizabeth Goudge was awarded the Association's much coveted Carnegie Medal.
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THE LITTLE WHITE HORSE won for its author, MISS ELIZABETH GOUDGE, the Library Association Carnegie Medal for being "an outstanding children's book of 1946." It has received similar high award in America, and a County Librarian has described it as "not merely the best children's book of 1946, but the best for ten years."
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Elizabeth Goudge
(Pronounced GOOZH - "d" is silent)1900 - 1984
British
Of all the books she has written, including the phenomenally successful Green Dolphin Street, Elizabeth Goudge says The Bird in the T... See more
C. Walter Hodges
1909 - 2004British
C. Walter Hodges is one of England's best-known illustrators, and he has done art work for Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada and Will Shakespea... See more
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The Little White Horse
Reprinted in 2013 by The Folio Society
Reprint illustrated by Debra McFarlane
Available formats: Hardcover
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The Little White Horse
Reviewed by Mari Ness
Elizabeth Goudge needed at least a temporary escape from the horrors of World War II when she sat down to write The Little White Horse. Set in a land and time that seems remote from war, where food rationing has never been heard of...
The Little White Horse
By the author of A City of Bells and Green Dolphin Street, an elegantly written book with the thoughtful, polished air of a...
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