The queen is devoted to her cats and they know they are loved, but when they try to win the king's affection, they drive him right out of the castle--at least for a while.

Rhyming text assures foals that their mothers are watching over them while they leap on a farm, frolic on a beach, gallop on a plain, and sleep in a stall.

Born on a windy hill off the coast of Ireland in 1917, a Connemara pony named Darcy is sold to a farm family and trained to pull a cart and plow.

"Cinders is a dappled gray Percheron mare with a bad reputation. When she arrives at the firehouse, she fights going into the stall. But with the help of a kind man, his animal-loving daughter, and a smart Dalmatian named Sparky, Cinders discovers she is meant to be a firehouse horse. Will she learn to brave the flames in time to stand up to the fiercest, most frightening fire the city has ever faced?"--

In the Netherlands in 1855, May, a young member of a circus family who is not permitted to perform because of a twisted foot, bonds with a local Friesian farm horse that she names Luna, and together the two perform a heroic act that changes their futures for the better. Includes facts about Friesian horses.

Around the year 1000, the Icelandic horse named Elska is born and learns about life and her role in the herd, as well as love and friendship, when she rescues the girl to whom she originally belonged. Includes facts about Icelandic horses and Iceland.

Four classic Christmas and snowy winter stories. First, Clement Clarke Moore's poem that begins with "the stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that St. Nicholas soon weill be there." The second and third are animated Christmas stories about Rosemary Well's characters Max and Morris and their Christmas adventures. The fourth is the telling of Jane Yolen's "Owl moon." where a young girl and her father take a night-time walk in the snowy...