Q & A with Martin J Day discussion

The donkey has always felt less significant than the self-important race horses, until a purebred white horse comes and tells him he is to race... This is a story about both the power of sacrificial love and the strength found in a name.

This is the seventh of The Animal Parables series. Each tale features an animal who finds that things turn out to be quite different from how it imagined and profound life lessons are learned along the way. These seven, life affirming, tales will delight young minds and leave adults moved to reflection. In this collection Martin Day has re-discovered the power of the parable to layer deeper meanings under the skin of a simple narrative. In doing so he has created a collection of stories that sound at multiple levels. It’s like the delight of finding that second tray under the first in a box of chocolates!

This is a short story of 2,514 words and a read aloud time of 17 minutes 30 seconds.