Silver Pony

by Lynd Ward

Book Overview

Recounts without words the adventures of a boy and his winged horse. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395147530
• ISBN13: 9780395147535
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.2" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

WONDERFUL

No story in words.. just in pictures. Great way to make up your own story. What is happening? Is the pony real? Cool book to "read" with your kids. Very magicial. Heather mama of 5

My 5 year old loves it

We just got this book from the library and my daughter loves it. I'm going to have to buy it now. She loves being able to tell the story as she sees it, using her imagination. And she also loves reading the book by herself as well as with an adult. A Great idea.

Good, for the right reader

The right reader has a read-to-me kid and shares a vivid imagination with that child. The 80+ illustrations tell a wordless story of a small boy and his magical winged horse. Because it's wordless, the readers have to come up with a lot of the story for themselves - the characters' names, details of why and how, and much more. The pictorial narrative gives plenty of chance for embellishment: exciting rescues of flooded families and lost sheep, some friendly moments with innocent romantic potential, and a potentially frightening scene near the end, a nightmare from the cold war era. Because the story exists only with the reader's help, you control how much you will explore each of the book's themes. Although the images are a black & white and a little dated, they will give you and an imaginative child a lot to work with. I regret that I came to this book with incorrect expectations. I had just read Lynd's "God's Man," and came away very impressed. It's another wordless story, but a grown-up story (as opposed to 'adult'), and done in woodcut. I hoped for more of that complexity and more of Lynd's work in that medium. This book offers neither. The problem is only in what I hoped for the book, not in the book itself. Still, I came away disappointed. //wiredweird

The Silver Pony

The book was received in good condition and in a timely manner. I would recommend this site to others.

The child in this book is often seen as a girl by girls.

A very complex story with no printed words. A five year old can tell a fine story from the picturs and a few questions such as "What will happen next?" and 'Why is the father mad?" I called the child "he" once and was quickly corrected by my daughter who had the same short hair and boy like clothes. It is wonderful to have a story where a girl is bold, has wouderful adventures and is loved by her family. We love the book, even 20 years later.