Lang, Don

About the author

Don Lang wrote several animal stories for children, amongst which was one horse story, Strawberry Roan. It was published in Grosset & Dunlap’s Famous Horse series.

Finding the book
The book is easy to find in the USA. It was not published in the UK.

Links and sources
Terri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibliography, Scarecrow Press, 1987
Many thanks to Lisa Catz for the photograph.


Bibliography (horse books only)


Strawberry Roan

Oxford University Press, New York, 1946, 218 pp, illus Gertrude Howe
Grosset & Dunlap, Famous Horse Series

Roscoe believes in the old strawberry roan trotter David Hal: as the horse ages, he stops
winning races, but Roscoe sticks with him as he goes from plough horse to circus horse.