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Horse Books for Kids

Description: Picture books, readers, non-fiction and chapter books for kids who love horses

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Rank Title Author Added

1

Misty of Chincoteague

by Marguerite Henry

9,619 members

70 reviews

4

3 Members: Cecrow, merrystar, cej1027

2

The Horse and His Boy

30,438 members

273 reviews

3.9

3 Members: Cecrow, merrystar, cej1027

3

Black Horses for the King

by Anne McCaffrey

1,561 members

26 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

4

Beware the Mare

62 members

1 review

½ 3.5

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Billy and Blaze: A Boy and His Pony

by C. W. Anderson

1,623 members

4 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Stormy, Misty's Foal

by Marguerite Henry

3,602 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Cecrow, merrystar

7

21,485 members

233 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Cecrow, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague

by Marguerite Henry

3,225 members

22 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Cecrow, merrystar

9

King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian

by Marguerite Henry

6,915 members

51 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

10

Season of Ponies

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

113 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Blaze and the Forest Fire

by C. W. Anderson

1,154 members

5 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

12

22 members

4 reviews

3.1

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Secret of Stonehouse

13 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: EGBERTINA

14

The Fishermen, the Horse, and the Sea

by Barbara Joosse

7 members

3

Member: books6548

15

Fritz and the Beautiful Horses

1,391 members

16 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

16

926 members

4 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

17

Bramble and Maggie: Horse Meets Girl

94 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

18

National Velvet

by Enid Bagnold

2,784 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

19

233 members

1 review

4.2

Member: merrystar

20

A Very Young Rider

by Jill Krementz

71 members

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

21

The Black Stallion

by Walter Farley

5,876 members

65 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

Five O'Clock Charlie

by Marguerite Henry

305 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

23

Justin Morgan Had a Horse

by Marguerite Henry

3,834 members

23 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

24

My Friend Flicka

2,685 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

25

Blaze and the Gray Spotted Pony

by C. W. Anderson

669 members

1 review

4.1

Member: merrystar

26

by Marguerite Henry

169 members

1 review

3.9

Member: merrystar

27

White Stallion of Lipizza

by Marguerite Henry

1,190 members

7 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: merrystar

28

Misty's Twilight

by Marguerite Henry

1,900 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

29

Alexandra the Great: The Story of the Record-Breaking Filly Who Ruled the Racetrack

11 members

3.8

Member: merrystar

30

54 members

1 review

2.8

Member: merrystar

31

Be Well, Beware

31 members

1 review

3.1

Member: merrystar

32

A Blue for Beware

27 members

½ 3.5

Member: merrystar

33

Beware and Stogie

13 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: merrystar

34

Blaze and Thunderbolt

by C. W. Anderson

820 members

1 review

3.8

Member: merrystar

35

Blaze and the Lost Quarry

by C. W. Anderson

730 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: merrystar

36

Blaze and the Mountain Lion

by C. W. Anderson

764 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

37

Blaze Finds the Trail

by C. W. Anderson

647 members

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

38

Blaze Shows the Way

by C. W. Anderson

663 members

1 review

4.1

Member: merrystar

39

Blaze Finds Forgotten Roads

by C. W. Anderson

248 members

3.9

Member: merrystar

40

I Want to Be the Reindeer!

by Ruth Lynn Kirk

2 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: merrystar

41

The "Almost" Christmas Pony

by Ruth Lynn Kirk

5 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: merrystar

42

Charlie Ate My Hat!

by Ruth Lynn Kirk

5 members

Member: merrystar

43

My Chincoteague Pony

by Susan Jeffers

169 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

44

The Perfect Pony

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

35 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: merrystar

45

45 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: merrystar

46

Wonder Horse: The True Story of the World's Smartest Horse

by Emily Arnold McCully

685 members

29 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

47

by Susan Jeffers

486 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

48

I Rode the Red Horse: Secretatriat's Belmont Race

by Barbara Libby

16 members

3

Member: merrystar

49

Man O'War: Best Racehorse Ever

by Jennifer McKerley

90 members

½ 4.7

Member: merrystar

50

A Horse Named Seabiscuit

by Mark Dubowski

437 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: merrystar

51

Assault, The Crippled Champion

by Marjorie Hodgson Parker

21 members

4

Member: merrystar

52

Moonlight Mile (4) (Marguerite Henry's Ponies of Chincoteague)

by Catherine Hapka

34 members

3.2

Member: merrystar

53

The Mystery Horse

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

936 members

1 review

3.8

Member: merrystar

54

Little Black, A Pony

by Walter Farley

713 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: merrystar

55

Horse Heroes: True Stories Of Amazing Horses

652 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

56

Blackie, The Horse Who Stood Still

by Christopher Cerf

43 members

2 reviews

½ 4.7

Member: merrystar

57

Sheltie and the Snow Pony

by Peter Clover

266 members

3.2

Member: merrystar

58

57 members

3.2

Member: merrystar

59

A Horse Like Barney

23 members

1 review

3.8

Member: merrystar

60

Horse Heroes: A Nonfiction Companion to Stallion by Starlight

by Mary Pope Osborne

344 members

5 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

61

Stallion by Starlight

by Mary Pope Osborne

1,551 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

62

The Runaway Racehorse

2,185 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

63

61 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

64

Selah's Sweet Dream (Dream Horse Adventures)

47 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

65

The Princess and the Foal

146 members

5 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: merrystar

66

A Hundred Horses

87 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

67

Horse Diaries #4: Maestoso Petra

by Jane Kendall

209 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

68

Chancey of the Maury River

by Gigi Amateau

121 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: merrystar

69

Macadoo of the Maury River

by Gigi Amateau

50 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

70

Dante of the Maury River

by Gigi Amateau

18 members

3

Member: merrystar

71

The Sand Ponies

by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

10 members

½ 4.5

Member: merrystar

72

White Ghost Summer

by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

38 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: merrystar

73

The Enchanted Horse

by Magdalen Nabb

243 members

1 review

3.8

Member: merrystar

74

The Horse in Harry's Room

1,215 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: merrystar

75

Pony Scouts: Pony Crazy

by Catherine Hapka

800 members

6 reviews

3.1

Member: merrystar

76

Pony Scouts: Runaway Ponies!

by Catherine Hapka

133 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

77

The Berenstain Bears Ride Like the Wind

by Stan Berenstain

22 members

3

Member: merrystar

78

Pony Mysteries #1: Penny and Pepper (Scholastic Reader, Level 3): Penny & Pepper

by Jeanne Betancourt

298 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: merrystar

79

The Clue in the Clubhouse (Pony Mysteries)

by Jeanne Betancourt

175 members

2 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

80

Pal and Sal (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2)

by R. A. Herman

347 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: merrystar

81

Let's Go Riding! (DK Readers: Level 2)

by Annabel Blackledge

140 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: merrystar

82

Ponies (DK Touch and Feel)

by Dorling Kindersley

129 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: merrystar

83

Ponies (National Geographic Readers) (Level 1)

1,182 members

2 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

84

Thundering Hooves (Story Library)

by Christine Pullein-Thompson

70 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

85

Gib and the Gray Ghost

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

268 members

½ 3.5

Member: merrystar

86

Five True Horse Stories

by Margaret Davidson

511 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: merrystar

87

Robert the Rose Horse

by Joan Heilbroner

863 members

3 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

88

by Michael Morpurgo

4,539 members

133 reviews

4

89

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

3,452 members

118 reviews

4

90

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

3,336 members

47 reviews

4

91

The Black Stallion Returns

by Walter Farley

2,073 members

15 reviews

3.9

92

Son of the Black Stallion

by Walter Farley

1,702 members

8 reviews

3.8

93

Smoky, the Cowhorse

1,518 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

94

Album of Horses

by Marguerite Henry

1,353 members

10 reviews

½ 4.4

95

by Lauren Brooke

1,222 members

11 reviews

3.9

96

by Jeanne Betancourt

1,076 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

97

The Island Stallion

by Walter Farley

1,042 members

8 reviews

4

98

Saige (American Girl Today)

987 members

5 reviews

3

99

A Pony for Keeps (Pony Pals #2)

by Jeanne Betancourt

957 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

100

Horse (Eyewitness Books)

by Juliet Clutton-Brock

905 members

6 reviews

4.1

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