A classic story which captures the magic of owning a horse and the breathless excitement of racing it. Velvet Brown is horse mad and when she wins a strange piebald horse in a raffle, she knows that he is something special. He has just the bravery that is needed to become a great champion. Could he even win the Grand National, the greatest of all horse races? Velvet is determined to try.
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This is a beautifully bound gift edition of this classic tale of a girl and her horse. Velvet Brown is a 14 year old girl living in small coastal village in the 1920s. She dreams of owning and training horses one day. When she and her friend Mi see a piebald horse jump a five foot fence, they decide to follow Velvet's dream to ride in the Grand National. But will Velvet be allowed to ride in the race? And can The Pie really win the most prestigious prize in all of steeplechasing? A horse-racing classic, National Velvet has entertained generations of horse lovers with dreams of riding in races themselves.
Launch titles in the Heritage Collection from Egmont include:
Classic Tales of Barbar by Jean de Brunhoff
Classic Tales of Rupert by Alfred Bestall
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Classic Tales of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Box of Delights by John Masefield
101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed National Velvet and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-10 years old
National Velvet features in the following genres: Recommended Children's eBooks, Recommendations, Featured Books for 9+ readers
National Velvet is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback
National Velvet was written by Enid Bagnold and published by Egmont Heritage an imprint of Egmont Childrens Books
