By Paul Goble
The Caldecott picture book about a girl so at home among wild horses that she chooses to become one.
A girl in a Plains village understands the horses better than anyone. One day a thunderstorm stampedes the herd and carries her far from home, out to where the wild horses live. She stays with them, and slowly she starts to belong to them more than to us.
Your child doesn't only like horses — they want to run with them — and this is the one that puts words to the feeling. Paul Goble spent his life among Plains stories and art, and the pictures alone will hold a four-year-old on your lap. It's a lovely place to start because it needs nothing else first, and it says the thing at the heart of the whole obsession out loud: some children would rather be with the horses than with almost anyone.