She wins a piebald horse in a raffle on the same day that she is bequeathed 5 ponies by an old man she just met. Velvet has a quirky imagination that is tolerated and even supported by the rest of the family. The main character is Velvet Brown, youngest (age 14) daughter of a butcher father and a mother who had famously swum the Channel years before. I recently decided to give it a re-read, and I think it holds up pretty well.
I was one of those horse crazy girls – show me a book about a horse and I’d read it.
I remember reading National Velvet multiple times when I was younger.
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