Big Ben

by Lawrence Scanlan

This 1000 piece puzzle by Big Ben depicts the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska. The puzzle pieces are fully interlocking.

Genres: Horses, Nonfiction

154 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

From Macmillan Books:

Lawrence Scanlan is the author of six bestselling books, including Wild About Horses and Little Horse of Iron. He is the coauthor, with Ian Millar, of Riding High, and has written three books for younger readers: Big Ben, Horses Forever, and The Horse’s Shadow. Scanlan worked closely with Monty Roberts on his acclaimed book The Man Who Listens to Horses. Winner of three Canadian National Magazine Awards for his journalism, Scanlan lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Reviews

[Sean Harding]

Scanlan #1
Big Ben is not a clock in this book, he is a horse and this is a biography of the said horse.
I looked up to see if there was a word for a biography for a horse, but alas no such word exists at this time.
Perhaps we should invent one?
What would you call a biography of a horse?
A Neighgraphy?
Anyway enough of that guff, this was the story of this horse who was successful and had periods where he wasn't mainly in the Olympics, one does wonder though how much of that is on the rider, which is not really discussed in this book.
It was an average factual based book about the horse, which held a favourable opinion of the horse and I guess was like a long Wikipedia article more than anything.

[Milanna Grossi]

Dnf after 10 pages :/

[Brenda]

Good book for kids. Would love to read the in-depth, full-length story of this horse.