King of the Wind

King of the Wind

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name = King of the Wind
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author = Marguerite Henry
illustrator = Wesley Dennis
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Rand McNally
release_date = 1948
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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isbn = NA & reissue ISBN 0-7862-2848-2
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"King of the Wind" is a novel by Marguerite Henry that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1949. It was made into a 1990 movie.

Plot summary

The novel is a fictionalised biography of the Godolphin Arabian, an ancestor of the modern thoroughbred. Sham is foaled in Morocco and tenderly nurtured by Agba, a mute slave boy, but is sent to France as a gift for King Louis XV of France as a young horse. The king's advisors, however, think the stallion small, skinny, and ill-formed compared to their own horses and Sham is reduced to pulling the palace cook's cart. After many adventures, Agba and Sham come to live at a great estate, Godolphin. Here, after Sham sires three champion racehorses, Lath, Cade, and Regulus, he becomes a famous racing stud.


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