A new and exciting collection of stories—Wonder Tales of Horses and Heroes, many never before retold for American children by Frances Carpenter.

Tales of horses from all over the world—faraway places like Tartary, Arabia, the African Sudan—places nearer home like Scotland, France, the U.S.A.

Tales of the origin of the horse—according to the Arabic, SON OF THE SOUTH WIND; according to the U.S. Plains Indian, THE GREAT MEDICINE HORSE; according to the Armenian, HORSES OF THE THUNDER; and others.

And adventurous tales such as—the story of Bucephalus, the horse of Alexander the Great, A HORSE AFRAID OF HIS SHADOW, from Macedonia; THE WHITE HORSE OF VOLENDAM, from the Netherlands.

FRANCES CARPENTER, the author, has proved again and again, in former collections, her ability as a storyteller. This latest collection, built around the universally popular subject of the horse, ranks with her distinguished TALES OF A CHINESE GRANDMOTHER and TALES OF A KOREAN GRANDMOTHER.

WILLIAM D. HAYES, a talented and versatile artist, has illustrated the collection with handsome, double-page spreads.

From the dust jacket