By Juliet Clutton-Brock
The big browse-anywhere reference for the child who wants to know everything about horses, from hoof to harness.
This is the fat, photo-crammed reference book a horse-obsessed child pores over on the floor. Every spread is a different corner of the horse world: the bones and muscles, every breed from tiny pony to giant plow horse, how a saddle and bridle work, wild horses and zebras, horses through history. You don't read it front to back, you fall into it.
This is where a child goes after moving past facts-for-fun into wanting the real detail. It rewards a browser and a stronger reader both, because the captions go deep but you can graze the pictures for an hour without reading a full page. A reluctant reader will happily sit with it precisely because it doesn't feel like a book you have to finish. It's the reference a horse-mad child keeps by the bed and comes back to for years.