A Book of Magic Horses

A Book of Magic Horses

infobox Book |
name = A Book of Magic Horses
title_orig =
translator =
author = Ruth Manning-Sanders
cover_artist = Robin Jacques
illustrator = Robin Jacques
country = Great Britain
language = English
series =
genre = Fairy Tales
publisher = Methuen & Co. Ltd.
release_date = 1984
media_type = Print (hardcover)
pages = 123 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-416-28070-6

A Book of Magic Horses is a 1984 anthology of 16 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.

Table of contents

*1. The Dapple Horse (France)
*2. Rubizal's Black Horse (Bohemia)
*3. Beedul-a-bup! (Jamaica)
*4. The Adventures of Gregor (Poland):I. The Fisherman and the Devil:II. The Hut in the Desert:III. The White Horse
*5. Whoa-ho! (Russia)
*6. The Straw Horse (Russia)
*7. The Princess in the Iron Tower (Bohemia):I. How Baldwin Found the Princess:II. Baldwin Meets Ismainy the Sorceress:III. Baldwin Frees the Princess:IV. Ismainy's Last Trick
*8. Malegy's Palfrey (Netherlands)
*9. What Came of Quarreling (Africa)
*10. Franz the Garden Boy (Denmark):I. The White Mare:II. The Princess
*11. Master Billy (Cornwall)
*12. Monster Grabber and the King's Daughter (Latvia):I. The Requiem:II. Monster Grabber:III. The King's Daughter
*13. The New Horse (Schleswig Holstein)
*14. The Beauty of the Golden Star (Sicily)
*15. How Jack Made His Fortune (Cornwall)
*16. Wits But No Money (Russia)

ee also

List of fictional horses


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