About the author
Grace W McGavran (b.1896) was an American writer of devotional texts. She wrote a few children’s stories, amongst which is The Thunder Egg, the story of a boy who moves to a new farm, where there’s a chance he’ll get a horse.
Finding the book
Easy to find.
Links and sources
Many thanks to Lisa Catz for the photograph and summary.
Bibliography (horse books only)
The Thunder Egg
Friendship Press, 1961, 125 pp, illus William C Hutchinson
A thunder egg is a rock found in certain areas, and sought after by collectors. Peter Blake wants a thunder egg, but there is one thing he wants even more – his own horse. When his family moves to a new farm, he hopes for a horse, and sees a colt on a neighbouring ranch. But the farm does not yet have enough water for stock, and the family is short on money. Peter trades a jade stone from his collection for three thunder eggs. He has to put them aside until someone can be found to cut them open properly so that if there is a design, it is not ruined. Peter is sure that one of them will be worth enough money to buy his colt.
