About the author
Marylois Dunn (1930–2013) was an author and librarian. During her career, she wrote several children’s books, one of which was a horse story: The Absolutely Perfect Horse (1983). Her most successful book was The Man in the Box, A Story of Vietnam (1968), which won the Oklahoma Sequoiah Children’s Book award in 1968. She served as a librarian in Houston for over 30 years. Co-writer Ardath Mayhar is a prolific author of science fiction.
Finding the book
Reasonably easy to find.
Links and sources
Obituary, Marylois Dunn
Bibliography (horse books only)
The Absolutely Perfect Horse (written with Ardath Mayhar)
Harper & Row, New York, 1983, 186 pp
Borgo Press, 2009
Dogmeat was once a noble horse: his name now tells you how he’s fallen, but he helps Annie and her family reassess their values.
