About the author
Grace Skaar wrote and illustrated children’s stories for the younger reader, most of which involved animals. She wrote one horse story, A Boy and His Horse, which looks at what it is like to finally get your own horse.
A Boy and His Horse, which is as far as I know her only horse story, was first published by William R Scott in 1958, and was illustrated by Grace Skaar herself. The UK edition had new illustrations by Monica Brasier-Creagh.
Links and sources
Terri Wear: Horse Stories: An Annotated Bibliography
Thank you to Lisa Catz for the photograph of the US version and the summary
Finding the book
Not a book that is particularly common either in the US or UK.
Bibliography (horse books only)
A Boy and His Horse
William R Scott, New York, 1958, 143 pp, illus the author
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1963, 94 pp, illus Monica Brasier-Creagh
The story of a boy who wants a horse very much, and is very happy when his father’s horse has a foal, which will be his someday. He watches the colt as it grows up, helps with his training, and finally the day comes when he is able to ride his own horse.
