AMAZON UK £6.99
AMAZON US
$4.19
AMAZON CA $5.02
Young adult / US Settlement
early 16th Century
North America, Arkansas River
It is always difficult to review a Young
Adult book because the parameters are entirely different from the adult genre,
as are the potential readers. This book is aimed at 10 – 14 year old children
and so it seems churlish to mention the amount of repetition in the story or
the couple of footnotes which normally spoil (for me) a full-on adult story.
Nevertheless I enjoyed the book very
much; it tells of Tall Bull, a young Cheyenne warrior who, on a raid that goes
wrong, sees a horse for the first time in his life. Finding that he can
approach the animal and eventually ride it for a short while, he is thrown and
the horse runs away. But the experience stays with him as he grows to full
adulthood and, once again during an attempt to find the buffalo herds, he
encounters another horse and takes it back to his tribe.
This is a very simplistic tale and a good
story for the age group it is aimed at. However, it is only seventy-seven pages
long, with an even shorter, unconnected, story included coming out at just
over one-hundred pages in total – which is probably fine for a ten-year-old reading-span
length but I do query the price for such
a short-length children’s book as being a little too high.
The cover is very striking, which is good to
attract younger readers, and the subject matter is ideal for both boys and
girls.
© Richard Tearle
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