"He is lost and gone and now I do not know
If it was a little white horse that I saw,
Or only a moonbeam astray in the silver night."
No fall reading list can ever be complete without something along the likes of this. A hidden valley somewhere in England; an old family mystery; and a little girl with a fierce belief in the good of this world, searching for the unicorn that will make everything right again. Elizabeth Goudge created a timeless classic with her Little White Horse fairytale, one that adults and children alike reach for on the daily. Even I do, and often, when the mists dance through my own home valley. Because who knows - maybe you'll be the one to see the little white horse, standing proudly and beckoning!
In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, her family's ancestral home in an charmed village in England's West Country, and she feels as if she’s entered Paradise. But the enchanted valley of Moonacre is shadowed by a tragedy that happened years ago, and the memory of the Moon Princess and the mysterious little white horse. Determined to restore peace and happiness to the whole of Moonacre Valley, Maria finds herself involved with an ancient feud, and she discovers it is her destiny to end it and right the wrongs of her ancestors. But what can one solitary girl do?
(from Goodreads)
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