Description
Poor dust jacket, wear at the edges, missing pieces at the head and foot of spine, rips at the head and foot of front cover, some staining. The Good binding is red cloth over boards, horse black line illustration, black lettering on spine, staining to top of front cover and rear cover, shelf-wear, corners bumped. Illustrated endpapers. Writing dated 1954 on first free page. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The illustrations are great with color and black-and-white throughout the book by Jay Hyde Barnum.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
This is a story full of sunshine on a Florida island and long days spent at the beach. Michael had never seen the ocean before and at first he was afraid of it, But after a toss in the waves to rescue his beloved Little Red Horse, wading seemed easy. And after wading up to his middle to collect weeds and shells and fishes, swimming seemed inevitable.
There weren’t many children on the beach but Michael had Granny, and his friends the Lighthouse Keeper and the mailboat Captain. And, best of all, he had the Little Red Horse, the small, proud, almost Pegasus, who would gallop behind when you weren’t looking. And the Little Red Horse had the golden sea horse in Michael’s aquarium for his friend. And they all had the waves for their dreams.
Michael learned more than swimming and fishing and the names of the rarest shells; he learned how to lose the thing you least want to part with–and not to mind. And he learned a little about magic as well,
Jay Hyde Barnum has captured the beauty of Michael’s island so we can keep it for always, There are many pictures in black and white and four wonderful double spreads in full color.
