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After a storm and landslide opens up a previously hidden valley containing a herd of prehistoric wild horses, a girl rescues an orphan foal who turns out to be key to enabling her veterinarian mother making a vaccine for a horse pandemic.
This was one of those books that I read, then forgot the title and author, then searched for vainly for ages before finally getting rescued by Jane Badger, the woman who's currently reprinting a bunch of classic horse books as ebooks.
Yesterday's Horses has a lot going on for a short book, but it's seen from the point of view of one girl on one farm, so it doesn't feel overstuffed. This likewise enables the pandemic to not come across as crushingly grim - horses die, even horses she knows, but we don't actually see any of that happen, and the focus is first on her raising the adorable prehistoric foal, then on her attempt to save her own horse when he gets sick. (Spoiler, he makes it).
It's more of a "I raised a wild animal, then gave it a bittersweet release back into the wild" book than a "rocks fall, all the horses die" book. Though I do have to note that rocks falling is the reason the foal was orphaned in the first place.
This was one of those books that I read, then forgot the title and author, then searched for vainly for ages before finally getting rescued by Jane Badger, the woman who's currently reprinting a bunch of classic horse books as ebooks.
Yesterday's Horses has a lot going on for a short book, but it's seen from the point of view of one girl on one farm, so it doesn't feel overstuffed. This likewise enables the pandemic to not come across as crushingly grim - horses die, even horses she knows, but we don't actually see any of that happen, and the focus is first on her raising the adorable prehistoric foal, then on her attempt to save her own horse when he gets sick. (Spoiler, he makes it).
It's more of a "I raised a wild animal, then gave it a bittersweet release back into the wild" book than a "rocks fall, all the horses die" book. Though I do have to note that rocks falling is the reason the foal was orphaned in the first place.
