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Title: Horse Dreams
Subtitle: Backyard Horses
Author: Dandi Daley Mackall
Narrator: Casey Holloway
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-18-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
Fourth-grader Ellie James has a great imagination. She spends a lot of time daydreaming of owning a black stallion show horse and winning trophies in the horse show. But when the answer to all her dreams and prayers gallops into her life, will Ellie be able to recognize it? Join Ellie and her quirky family in their exciting, horse-loving adventures.
Editorial Reviews:
Prolific childrens author Dandi Daley Mackall kicks of her Backyard Horses series by introducing listeners to Ellie James, a nine year-old with an overactive imagination and a passion for horses. Despite her teachers disapproval, Ellie decides her fourth grade science project will determine "the best way for me to own a horse". When Ellie unexpectedly spots a horse galloping across the schoolyard, her peers begin to suspect that - far from a scientist - Ellies lost it to her daydream delusions. Actress Casey Holloway imbues the horse-loving heroine with amiable, if occasionally misguided, eccentricities. Mackalls schoolyard relationships are nuanced and convincing, and Holloways colorful character acting adds to this authenticity, ensuring that young listeners will relate to this feisty fourth grader.
Members Reviews:
Fun read for the girls
Horse Dreams is a well written and fun read for the younger girls and horse lovers of all ages. The sharp prose and subtle humor keeps readers connected, and the adroit spirituality encourages hope, perseverance and faith. And this prolific writer has dozens of horse books and other books for children.
Ellie James dreams of owning her own black stallion and dazzling the audiences in the local horse shows. However, with no shot of purchasing such a horse, Ellie keeps daydreamingâbut once too often and lands in the principalâs office. She attempts a deal with her fourth grade teacher, to attempt three methods of obtaining her own horse for her upcoming science experimentâbut no luck. Still she begs, prays and even cries, and when a skinny pinto runs wild in their small town, Ellie captures the terrified animal and temporarily rescues it from animal control, but for how long? And how will she ever get the horse of her dreams.
Horse Dreams
Ellie James is a fourth-grader who loves horses and dreams about owning a horse of her own. She daydreams and prays about someday owning a black stallion. Ellie daydreams so much about horses (including in class) that when she tells her teacher that she sees a horse outside the school, no one believes her and they think sheâs just daydreaming again. But is she?
âHorse Dreamsâ is a cute horse related story for pre-teen age girls. In the book, Ellie learns that prayers arenât always answered in the way we want them to be or the way we expect them to be answered. Another theme of the book is that we shouldnât judge people (or in this case, a horse) by how they look.
Ellieâs brother Ethan is deaf and communicates with Ellie, her parents, and her friend using sign language. The title of each chapter is spelled out in sign language along with the English title and the whole sign language alphabet is listed in the back of the book along with a glossary of horse related words and terms. I thought both made a nice addition to the book.
I like the way Ellieâs faith is portrayed throughout the book and how genuine it feels whenever Ellie is praying or thinking about God and her relationship with him.
