About the author
Mary Ann Whitley is an American author of children’s books. She’s written at least one other story besides her horse book: The Sheltering Tree (1985). Biographical information on her unfortunately seems very thin on the ground.
Finding the book
Easy to find.
Links and sources
Terri Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibliography
Bibliography (horse books only)
A Circle of Light
Walker, New York, 1983, 84 pp.
Kem and an old horseman called Faras train Giniz. Kem is worried that when Giniz is three, he will have to sell her to the neighbouring trible of Voltan, who treat horses in a very different way to Kem and his tribe.