Snowflake

Breyer Stablemates

by Suzanne Weyn

A reader from the best-selling Stablemates series, Snowflake features a Percheron horse!

Snowflake is a Percheron horse who was abandoned by his owners. He is taken to Fox Creek Farm, where Emily, Anna, and Mandy volunteer to care for him. As winter approaches, they worry that Snowflake will be cold. So, the girls plan a sleigh ride to help raise money to buy Snowflake a blanket!

Genres: Horses, Childrens, Animals, Picture Books, Young Adult

40 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2006

About the author

Suzanne Weyn grew up in Williston Park, Long Island, New York. She has three sisters and a brother. As a girl, she was very interested in theatre and in reading. Louisa May Alcott was her favorite author, but she also read every Sherlock Holmes story. Suzanne lived pretty close to the ocean and going to Jones Beach was one of her favorite activities. Even today, if she goes too long without seeing the ocean, she starts feeling restless.

Suzanne now lives in upper New York State with her husband, two teen daughters and Abby the cat. Her house is at the edge of the woods and is nearly 200 years old. She graduated from State University of New York at Binghamton and received her master's degree from Pace University. She teaches part-time at City College in New York.

Suzanne's other books for Simon Pulse include South Beach Sizzle, a romantic comedy written with Diana Gonzalez. Her novels for the Simon Pulse line "Once Upon a Time" are The Night Dance: A Retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, Water Song: A Retelling of the Frog Prince, and The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of Rumplestiltskin. She very much enjoys rethinking these classic tales from an original point of view, always looking for the real psychological underpinning of the story. Suzanne is currently doing revisions on her fourth book in the line, which will be coming in 2009.

Suzanne's other recent novels are include The Bar Code Tattoo (2004) and its sequel, The Bar Code Rebellion (2006). The Bar Code Tattoo was selected by the American Library Assoc. (ALA) as a 2005 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and was a 2007 Nevada Library nominee for Best Young Adult Fiction. It is currently translated into German and was nominated for the 2007 Jugenliteraturpreis for Young People's Literature.

Reviews

[Andrea Cox · Rating 5 out of 5]

Animal rescue stories warm my heart. When they take place in winter and feature snow, that's an extra-sweet bonus. I adored this book.

[Kelsi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aw, this book brings back so many memories when I was little. Who knew that the horse in this book would look like my first horse I'd meet many years later....

[Melissa Namba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very basic in regards to chapter books. Snowflake was an abandoned horse and the girls rally to get Snowflake back up to snuff. They get her to pull a sleigh in the winter to help raise funds to buy an extension for the stable and an appropriately sized blanket for Snowflake.

[Abigail Padilla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very cute book! Great for anyone with a love of horses! The girls were faced with a problem and found a way to solve it.

[Dharia Scarab · Rating 3 out of 5]

I collected Breyer model horses when I was young. Finding they published books now to go with their models was a nice surprise.


My love of reading started when i was young, and it gives me immense pleasure to provide books to Spread the Word Nevada, an organization that passes them on to children in the community. They are a terrific organization supporting an important cause. If your local I encourage you to check them out. For those living further a field, look in your own community, their may already be a similar program in place. And if not, you can always help start one.

http://spreadthewordnevada.org/

Myself, I go out on the weekends and
shop thrift store and bulk book lots to rescue books and donate them. Sometimes I'll find a book I remember reading when I was young and will read it again before passing it on.

I don't rate these books using my normal scale, instead I give most of them three stars. This isn't a Criticism of the book, simply my way of rating them as good for children.

[Alysha DeShaé · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a cute story that will encourage advancing readers who love horses to keep reading and, even better, will teach them that not everything is just handed to you because you want or need it. An abandoned and neglected horse is adopted by a farm that isn't quite suitable for a long-term stay. When winter comes, the children need to earn money for a horse-blanket to keep Snowflake warm. I'm pleased with the fact that they don't just go asking someone to give them a free blanket or free money, but they actually set up a service (involving the horse) to earn the money.

[Kim Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is especially one i would like, because of my love for horses. I like that the girls work to aquire money to take care of this horse and buy him a blanket. I like that the book includes facts about horses in the back also. The concept of the book is highly proable.

[Alexandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was awesome

[Sally · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cheerful, gentle easy-reader about a rescued draft horse, for little girls who love horses.

[Romie · Rating 5 out of 5]

The jingle bell sleigh was so fun a ride for them. And then she won first place for all the sleigh rides at the little snow fair.
--little e, age 6

[Holly Letson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A wonderful story about an abandoned workhorse that becomes a big help st the Winter Festival, this one will truly warm your heart.

[Hillvan]

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