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Two visitors from another world enter the secret valley of Azul Island and provide Steve with a chance to see how Flame can do in competition with the world's fastest horses.Tags
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I have no memory of this aside from the drawings. Walt, Walt, Walt, what were you thinking? Aliens? Aliens with a passion for horse racing? Aliens with a passion for horse racing so strong they are willing to transport a boy and his wild stallion from the middle of the Caribbean to Havana so they can race in the Internacional? Ludicrous, every word. The race scenes are, of course, stellar. The rest is laughable.
This was one of the weirdest of Farley's books. Space aliens (!) take the boy and his stallion to Florida to run in a big race. Setting aside the whole aliens angle, no reputable racetrack would let an unknown and unregistered horse into a race. Even when I was a kid, I knew that. Details like that kept me from enjoying the book more, which is why it only gets 2 stars.
Aliens who love horse racing land near Azul Island and make it possible for Steve and Flame to sneak over to Puerto Rico for a race. It doesn't go very well.
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Walter Farley was born in Syracuse, New York on June 26, 1915. He began writing The Black Stallion when he was a student at Columbia University and completed it while working as an advertising copywriter in New York City. It was an immediate success when it was published in 1941. During World War II, he served in the army where he wrote the second show more book in the series, The Black Stallion Returns. After his discharge from the service in 1946, he became a full-time author. He wrote 20 novels in the Black Stallion series. His also wrote a fictionalized biography of America's greatest Thoroughbred, Man O'War. He died of heart failure on October 17, 1989 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Island Stallion Races
- Original title
- The Island Stallion races
- Original publication date
- 1955
- Dedication
- For Steve
- First words
- The tropical sun was hot and brilliant.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Pitch turned into the airlines terminal, carrying only a day's newspaper, for his book on the past had been dropped and forgotten long minutes before.
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- Engels
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- Genres
- Children's Books, Fiction and Literature, Kids
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ10.3 .F22 .I — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- 5 — Danish, Dutch, English, French, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 19
- ASINs
- 11
