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A review by roseleaf24
King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian by Marguerite Henry
3.0
Medal Winner 1949
The race scene at the beginning stuck me, and I would imagine, some child readers, as boring and vocabulary-heavy. But the rest of the story is a sweet story of a mute stable boy and the horse he loves. The two go through enormous challenges, and both highs and lows, but eventually are redeemed through the speed of the horse's offspring. The book does an excellent job of showing what happens when we judge others without knowing their story, when we choose to act without trying to listen first. I was curious as to how a 1948 book would handle a Muslim main character from the Arab world, but Henry did a good job of simply showing his world and his practices without comparing it to Christianity.
The race scene at the beginning stuck me, and I would imagine, some child readers, as boring and vocabulary-heavy. But the rest of the story is a sweet story of a mute stable boy and the horse he loves. The two go through enormous challenges, and both highs and lows, but eventually are redeemed through the speed of the horse's offspring. The book does an excellent job of showing what happens when we judge others without knowing their story, when we choose to act without trying to listen first. I was curious as to how a 1948 book would handle a Muslim main character from the Arab world, but Henry did a good job of simply showing his world and his practices without comparing it to Christianity.