By Raymond Antrobus (author) , Ken Wilson-Max (illustrator)
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A truly authentic and stunningly evocative picture book on brother-sister dynamics and how creativity and storytelling can help resolve conflict and enable better understanding.
My sister and me fight! / Push Pull Hurt Hide. / We would not use our words.
This little boy does not get on with his sister. They misunderstand each other, struggle to communicate, and they fight. Afterwards, there's a lot of hurt, heavy feelings and loneliness. In order to escape their constant rowing and clear his head, the boy often retreats to his bedroom when he writes his stories.
He writes stories about terrible horses - trampling and galloping - and he, a lone pony, who cannot compete and cannot speak. But what happens when his sister finds his book? Could it be a way for them to finally understand each other?
Filled with empathy and poignance, Terrible Horses is a beautiful and powerful story of managing anger, reflection and learning to see someone else's perspective.
Raymond Antrobus became the first ever poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre, and in January 2021 he was awarded an MBE for his services to literature in 2021.His adult poetry collection The Perseverence was published to great acclaim, earning him the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Ted Hughes Award and was a Sunday Times & The Guardian Poetry Book of the Year Awards. His latest poetry collection, All the Names Given, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Can Bears Ski? is his first picture book. Find him online at raymondantrobus.com, on Instagram as @raymond_antrobus and Twitter as @RaymondAntrobus
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A truly authentic and stunningly evocative picture book on brother-sister dynamics and how creativity and storytelling can help resolve conflict and enable better understanding.My sister and me fight! / Push Pull Hurt Hide. / We would not use our words.This little boy does not get on with his sister. They misunderstand each other, struggle to communicate, and they fight.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Terrible Horses and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-6 years old
Terrible Horses features in the following genres: Featured Books for 5+ readers, Stories about Family and Friends, PSHE: Siblings, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Picture storybooks, Recommendations, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, PSHE: Family Issues, Children’s picture books, Children’s: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts
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Terrible Horses was written by Raymond Antrobus and published by Walker Books Ltd an imprint of Walker Books
Terrible Horses has 32 pages
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