Horses fill the margins of the homework, and the backyard is for galloping. Pick by your child's age and how much their heart can carry. It runs from a picture book a four-year-old will sit through to a Victorian novel a twelve-year-old reads alone, with a horse front and center almost the whole way.
Reach for the one that fits. For the smallest horse-lover there's Paul Goble's glowing picture book and the gentle Bramble and Maggie, a real horse and a real girl learning to trust each other. For the child who wants the actual animal there are two fact books, a photo-filled reader and the big DK browse-anywhere reference. Misty is the warm pony story a lot of parents remember. Then two are held apart for older readers: Black Beauty, a horse telling the hard truth of its own life, and Pony, which is really a frontier ghost story with a horse as the way in. Match by age and by stomach rather than by reading level alone.