One of my favorite books.

I first read it because it had a horse on the cover; and indeed, although the horse does have a part, the Chestry Oak is not about the horse.

The Chestry Oak is a model of honesty, intregity, honor, unselfish love, self sacrifice.

I cry from start to finish, in every chapter, when I read it. I read it aloud once to each of my daughters, and I cried all the way through it. (They didn't cry until the end, however!).

I have read other Kate Seredy books, but none compare to the Chestry Oak. ( )

This is my all time, number one, favorite story. It is about a boy in Hungary during WWII, who loves and loses a horse. The boy ends up on a farm in the US, and makes a new life there. And then.. ( )

Hardcover, DJ torn, First edition